This is a great article!

As a psychotherapist, I can agree that you shouldn't stick to a therapist who you feel can't connect with you or your issues or who can't help you see progress.

What I can say from my own therapy journey-because it's mandatory for every psychotherapist to see their own personal therapist so I have been both client and afterwards therapist; is that therapy is more or less like meditation. Sometimes you feel like you've uncovered things and have tremendous insights, some other sessions are not so fruitful.

The therapist is going to always ask you what you want to talk about at the beginning of the session because we need to prioritize wherever the client feels like talking about that day. Otherwise, we can discuss issues we noticed from previous sessions.

Psycotherapy can be lenghty or not. It depends on the client and what issues they came there for. It depends on their willingness to do the inner work and also on the therapists' ability to help them. It's just like going to see doctor, if one is not satisfied with the course of treatment and consultation, they can alwways seek other opinions.

Therapy in itself implies a lot of inner work and at the end of the session, you might feel drained or angry. That's because a proper therapist has the ability to bring to surface painful repressed memories and/or traumas from the past. That's when the healing process starts.

I totally agree with the last point, you should go with your gut instinct. There are many therapists as well as different types of therapy approaches that might resonate better. A proper therapist should know when they can help a client and when they should step back or recomment another therapist more suitable for the client's needs.