So here's my experience with that. My therapist seems to be a realist. He doesn't offer false reassurance. It's something that bothered me for a long time, but that I've come to accept and even respect. In part because people in my past (like my parents) gave false platitudes, like "everything will be OK" or "I'm sure it will be fine" (including if I was getting a medical test), and I learned that was ultimately not helpful to me, as someone with anxiety, because how did they *know* that?

I've come to learn that validation of my fear is more helpful to me. Or the other person admitting that they don't know how things will turn out, but that they trust I can get through it if things are difficult. (I mean, I guess in the possibility of nuclear war, if that's what you're thinking, that isn't particularly helpful).

So this may be a case where she doesn't want to say "everything will be OK" because she doesn't know that will be the case. So she doesn't want to mislead you or lie to you or give you empty platitudes. This is how my T has been with the pandemic, for example.

However, all that being said, I completely get that you want--and need--some reassurance. I would try talking to her about what that would look like for you. Maybe it's something like her saying "I don't know if it's the end of the world. So how can you deal with the possibility that it is?" Or "What are things you can do to help you deal with that uncertainty?" As in, validating and not minimizing your fears, while talking about ways to deal with them. I think much of fear is the lack of control, so if there's even some little thing you could do--I don't know, donate a small amount of money (even $5) to support Ukrainian refugees, say? So you can feel you're doing something. Or to figure out some other way that you can feel more in control. Like, I don't know, making a plan if you would have to evacuate, say?

But I'd talk to her about what you find to be not helpful vs. potentially helpful (or even saying you don't know what will help, just that what she's saying doesn't help!).