> If a therapist isn't willing to work with you in the first couple of sessions to create a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound plan for your therapy, you should be very wary.

I have a friend who's been in therapy for over a decade, due to debilitating anxiety from childhood trauma.

Went many years to first before switching to second, same story. I asked "well have you gotten any tasks or tools to help you deal with it?" multiple times, always same answer: "No".

Third time lucky it seems. Now seeing a therapist which comes with concrete suggestions and tasks. Things have improved. It's not a trivial problem to solve, but at least there's change now.

edit: You may ask, why stay with the therapists that didn't help? Anxiety... didn't want to upset the therapists by suggesting it wasn't helping.