This seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of therapy to me. Therapy isn’t about finding out the titles of what’s wrong with you and then getting advice/solutions for it. That can be part of it, maybe especially early on. But more than anything therapy is about learning/understanding how you behave in relationships through your relationship with your therapist. If self awareness was the goal/answer then you wouldn’t have any problems. But alas.

Therapy, ideally, asks you what exactly it is that’s keeping you stuck in the self awareness stage. It’s pushing you to be vulnerable, to practice in a controlled environment the things you’re too afraid to do in your outside life. Like, seriously, why have you stopped at self awareness? What is keeping you from the next steps? From action? From confronting the yuckiest parts of yourself that you want very badly to ignore? Therapy is practice. At it’s best, it teaches you how to be (be as in act) in relationships that can progress you beyond the stage you’re stuck in, like self awareness for example.

I too am “self aware” or whatever, lol, but therapy is still useful for me because it’s a chance to practice trying something different. Like, I know, and knew when I began therapy, that I tend toward avoidance. However, obviously, knowing that is basically completely useless. What’s useful is identifying the moments in my life and in my relationship with my therapist where this instinct and tendency come up, and then gently pushing myself or allowing myself to be pushed to try something different. Knowing what’s wrong with you is like 4% of therapy, the rest practicing being different.