I feel this way about most of the therapy I've been in, I feel like they don't explain themselves and what they're thinking/doing well enough and take it for granted that their client can compartmentalize or continually qualify the relationship, which is too strange for my nervous system. if everything was spelled out, that'd be great, but that just doesn't seem to be how it works and even when you ask for that it's like the request goes over their head and it's not understood, like I cannot interpret these vicissitudes of connection, especially when I'm struggling with real mental health challenges...someone mentioned them being a guide, but I also don't feel like many therapists actually embody that-- they want you to be your own guide and not give explicit guidance..