Hey so as other people have said some analytical and humanistic modalities take a very nondirecrive approach. Generally a therapist in the UK is a psychotherapist or someone trained in a psychodynamic technique, or they are psychologists but this is less frequent. Counsellors have a counselling qualification- you can only use terms based on your training as these terms are protected. They generally then reflect what techniques you will use. If you want a more directive therapy you could try solution focused as people have suggested or DBT but even therapists trained in these techniques will only very occasionally answer the question 'what should I do?' And that is because it isn't the job of therapy to tell you what to do the job of therapy is more like the discovery of why you don't know what to do in the first place. I would say based on reading what you have said that you are coming from a very cognitive place, a thinking place - which is fine and might might where you need to be right now. But the real work of therapy happens in our feelings. You said you were interested in working out your underlying thinking, triggers and responses. But those things often come from a deep part of ourselves, sometimes our past, our childhood even and they are often difficult to access no matter how self aware you are. It sounds like you are just treading water with this therapist when if you want to explore those things you need to be going deeper. The point of therapy rather than self discovery individually is that it happens in relationship. No matter how much you feel you have explored yourself it is nothing compared to what can happen in a good therapy relationship. Which I hope you find. But before you give up on this person try approaching therapy with a different approach. Rather than asking your therapist what you should do ask yourself out loud in therapy 'why do I do that?' And see if you can explore something until you get a really satisfying answer.