Does your therapist get frustrated with a lack of progress?

I had one get mildly frustrated. But she was operating under a delusion... that something she said or did was going to lead to improvement in my life or well being. It was shared delusion... i had unexamined assumptions about buying a healing relationship like a commodity.

At best there were transient palliative effects. Was like getting a single large hit of some drug that merely masked symptoms. And meanwhile troubling patterns were being laid down which led to new and lasting problems.

The expectation ought to be... don't make things worse, and clearly many of them cannot even manage that.

No, he generally wouldn't tell me something like that but I don't know if he felt it.

Sometimes I would think he was feeling something like irritation but later learn they were my feelings projected on him.

If we were stuck, he might confront me, which I've found to be helpful as it's always propelled me towards growth. At the time, it would make me angry, so it took me awhileto figure out he would do that for my benefit. He knows more about me than I do myself sometimes, which took me awhile to realize and admit.

I became more frustrated at the nonsensical crap the woman thought was progress. One time she said that I didn't tell her about X anymore so that minute was all solved and I had to explain the reason I didn't tell her about X anymore is because of how totally crap she wasn't handling it. It was still the same for me but she was so ****** at it I just stopped bothering to try to tell her about it.

I've been with my current T for 2.5 years. I would say I am the one who is frustrated with the lack of progress... she I think is more concerned about it. Last time I saw her she said "I'm not sure therapy is working for you" and seemed to blame herself. When really it is my fault that I'm not very forthcoming

I'm not sure. I know she sometimes questions if she's helping me enough. I don't know if this is a source of frustration for her.

I just had this conversation with T. I emailed him after session asking him if he feels I am wasting my time in therapy. He called to say he thinks I picked up on his frustration on how we can move what we do together in the therapy room to me being able to do it on my own outside of session. The work is not transferring over to real world application.