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Honestly if you're spending lots of time repeating things to your therapist, I think you need a better therapist, and/or a better therapy modality.

Talk therapy is pretty bad in this respect, IMO. I had the most success in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, where I very rarely had to rehash stuff with my therapist-- partly because she took good notes (and recorded our sessions!), but also because we were talking about new stuff every week, new concrete skills for dealing with situations, not rehashing the same feelings over and over like talk therapy (in my experience).