How do I tell my therapist I still don't understand what we are working toward?
Health"We'll get to that," my therapist said when I asked for help with the dread I feel before opening work emails.
The first two sessions were mostly background. In the third we talked about my mother's move, which matters too, but I left unsure how it connected to the reason I booked. Each session costs £70. I can budget for two more this month, but not an open-ended weekly appointment.
My sister says three sessions is far too soon to question anything. I am not expecting the dread to vanish in three meetings. I want to understand the approach and what we would look for as progress.
[NIMH suggests asking about therapy goals, expected time frames and how progress will be assessed](https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/psychotherapies). That made the question feel reasonable, but I still worry that saying "I don't know what we're doing" will sound as though I am grading the therapist.
Would you raise this before booking again or use the beginning of another session to agree a direction? I want to give the work a chance without quietly promising money I do not have.