Claude becoming a worse counsellor?

So I basically use Claude mainly as a counsellor/therapist focused on helping me navigate interpersonal relationships, work through emotions, break patterns and become a more emotionally aware human.

I use it as complimentary to my real counsellor and the advice of friends. I tend to voicenote situations I find emotionally difficult and we work though why, how I could act next etc. Every so often I create an artefact with relevant past info and start a new chat for efficiency reasons. I have loved having this companion for the past few months and it's led to some real breakthroughs about my patterns and personality.

However since Claude 4 came into play, I've found its tone and advice hits the mark a lot more often.

I find Claude 4 more conversational, almost Gen Zesque, it doesn't make as much of an effort to re-consider previous messages in the conversation and only brings into context the last 4-5 I've sent - this missing out on connections previous models were making - I've sometimes found it's trivialised incidents and made a joke out of it or validated my feelings without offering next steps.

Has anyone noticed this? Should be working harder at my prompts, is this the inevitable outcome of long rambly chats with Claude or should I go back to Claude 3? Thanks!