thanks everyone for the response. Well I have not gone into any depth with my t, he is cbt and we don't really talk about feelings much although when I have done that he's done the reflecting back as well. I've been seeing him for about 3 months. Guess I do a lot of storytelling and then he reflects back to me in a summary what I had just said. Guess it makes me feel sort of like, 'get on with it already, I already covered that so put your own insight into it'. Like I just spent all this time talking about something and now he is repeating it (OK for his understanding maybe, but does he have to do it with everything? Everything I say?) It gets so frustrating.