I started seeing a Psychologist in March, and I sort of feel like he isnt helping me and I am not sure if my expectations are just too high.   When I first found him, i told him right away that mymother passed away in december and i feel lonely and isolated in this new city and i have no friends, and i have depression and social anxiety. 

Basically the first SEVERAL sessions, he had me explain my life story,and he wrote down what I was saying. Then the next couple sessions I did a questionaire /inventory where I answered various questions I guess to determine the type of depression I have.  so after that was finally over i was relieved we'd finally get into the actual therapy. 
after he told me what kind of depression i had (one step below major), the next session was him going through all the different types; my homework was to look up on WebMd the various types of depression that exist . then the next session he went over the 4 basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. my next homework assignment was to look up a few depression workbooks and see which one appealed to me. then thenext session he just told me to buy the one i liked and read the first three chapters and kind of discussed CBT and the workbooks and all that; then my homework the last two times has been to pick a few incidents where i might have used a cognitive distortion and write down which cognitive distortions. 

at the beginning of each session i am supposed to explain if anything of interest happened since the last appointment, and and the end of the session i explain what upcoming events I have.  

The thing that bothers me is as follows. It took SEVERAL sessions to go over my life story when his depression diagnosis was based on the survey/questionaire, and my past hasnt even come up at all. he spent multple sessions explaining to me depressions that dont even apply to me.  Whenever I tell him about what happened and what's bothering me he NEVER follows up or delves deeper.  He just says something like "ok...moving on to the homework assignment.."  He has ended MANY sessions early because we finished whatever thing he had on the schedule that day, even if i had mentioned something that was really bothering me...he didnt use the remaining time to discuss it.   And finally, i told him multiple times im depressed because of my mom's death and he hasnt even brought it up. even when i said i was sad when i visited a certain place recently he said why. i said because it reminded me of my mom. he said. "oh."  no follow up no nothing.  i also told him i'm really interested in my social anxiety.  he has basically ignored that altogether and hasnt discussed my social anxiety issues whatsoever.  in fact i was a little bothered when i was putting off calling someone, which was BECAUSE of my social anxiety, he said i was "procrastinating."  i was procrastinating because i was trying to avoid having to talk to the person.  it's like my repeated mentions of having social anxiety went in one ear and out the other

i used to see a psychologist about 15 years ago, and her style was completely different than this. I liked seeing her. she'd let me talk about what was on my mind and then she'd ask follow up questions and delve into the heart of the matter.  This current psychologist seems to want to follow some rote routine. it almost feels like talking to someone you're acquainted with who doesn't want to get TOO involved. that's what it feels like talking to him, who keeps it somewhat impersonal..

what is a psychologist supposed to do during a session? are my expectations out of line? i feel like i've been seeing him since MARCH and it's going soooo slowly and  i feel weird about how it feels like i'm talking to an acquaintance who keeps their distance and doesnt want to get too involved