I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone, sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes. All I meant to say if that if your T sits there and basically just goes with literally whatever you talk about, it can easily just get to a point where client talks about their minor issues each week and therapist validates. If you talk about something you need support for by yourself, then I think that is already "challenging". If you don't talk about your actual issues and your T just goes along with it, that's what I think is not productive. And since nobody can really know what's actually the struggle, some form of either the client being open or the T being challenging can help.