looks like you answered your own question...

Question title of post .... "why wont my therapist give me a diagnosis?"

Answer from your post ....."she doesn’t believe in labels or diagnoses"

as for why she doesnt believe in labels or diagnoses only she can answer that.

my suggestion is next time you see or talk to her ask her.

speaking for me my own therapists do not give diagnoses. they leave that up to psychiatrists who I see for going through special testing to find out what my diagnoses are.

the way my therapists explained it to me was that they did not believe in giving someone a diagnosis with out actual testing to back it up. too many mistakes can happen where people end up labeled things they may not have if a therapist just said ok you have this or that, thats your diagnosis label.

Im very glad my therapists dont believe in just sticking diagnosis labels on me, this gives them and I more time to work on my problems not focus on a name. I can work on being depressed with out sticking a diagnosis on it, I can work on being anxious with out sticking a diagnosis name on it, I can go to my therapist and say this week I had trouble with this and that, with out worrying about a fancy name or label for it.

diagnosis labels are just that names for a whole mess of problems stuck together. having a diagnosis label does not mean I cant talk to a therapist, tell the therapist what my thoughts and behaviors are, what my fears are, learn how to get better at managing my problems.

labels and diagnosis's are just that labels and names they dont define a person and they dont help or hinder a persons own abilities to walk into a therapist office and say this week I had a problem with nightmares. this week I had a problem with being anxious, or what ever.

my suggestion is give your therapists way a try. dont worry so much on labels and diagnosis and just tell her what your thoughts and behaviors are that you want to make changes to. tell her whether your medications is working, just talk to her about your problems.