And, as one last thing -- a brief note that didn't really fit anywhere else: No halfway-good therapist will have their feelings hurt by being told that you don't feel like you're making progress; they'll see it for the valuable opening into a discussion about expectations and how to progress towards them that it is. And asking about how to judge if you're making progress can be useful, too; they might well be seeing progress that you're not, and can point out to you what they see.

In my case, I've had the same sorts of problem, and my therapist has on a few occasions expressed a bit of concern that I was saying what I thought would avoid hurting her feelings rather than how I really felt.