My therapist is very keen to mention how much progress I have made in various areas, unsurprisingly so because this reflects well on her as well.

More generally, I don't really like the emphasis on progress and change and improvement within therapeutic work. I recognise that many people enter therapy in order to change things for themselves, but this is not the only reason to enter into therapy. I like the idea of therapy as an introspective time when we pay attention to our internal life, not necessarily to change or improve but in order to be curious and to reflect. "Progress" seems very outcome driven, where goals are measurable and achievement is linear. It seems like a limited evaluation to me. I like slow, wandering thoughts which can't really be fitted into a results driven framework but which have value in their own, strange right.