Therapist talks about her beliefs a lot
My therapist talks about her beliefs a lot and I'm trying to gage how normal it is. It sometimes leads us to basically arguing, not because I'm trying to persuade them of my beliefs, but because I'm trying to justify and protect my own beliefs. Alternatively, sometimes when they launch into tangents or speeches about their beliefs I feel like it's going off topic (which causes stress because it's using my therapy time). Also, I do think their beliefs are sometimes being brought up in a "devil's advocate" type of way rather than actually trying to be helpful.
Here's some examples
-the big one is that she talks about how she believes life has no meaning. The thing is, when I feel/think this, is when I'm at my deepest feeling of depression. So I find the constant talk of life being meaninglessness kind of dark. Plus, what if she has religious clients? Is a therapist's belief on the meaning of life actually relevant to therapy? This may seem mean but I actually don't how my therapist sees the meaning of life. I care about how I feel about life.
-one time I was upset at the end of a session about a coworker not pulling their weight on projects. My therapist went on a tangent about how they believe in quiet quitting and think it's great, so then I started to argue (poorly, because I was very emotional and tired at the session was almost over, IMO it was not the time to go into this side topic and IMO the conversation about quiet quitting is already pretty dated) that I felt like it was putting strain on other people and they continued to talk about how quiet quitting was great. But isn't believing that the quit quitting is 1) real and actively happening and 2) good, one's personal belief? is it relevant to me?
-Lately they've been talking about how they believe often using drugs and substances as a way to cope is fine because sometimes it's the lesser of evils. This viewpoint is fine - I understand it and share it to an extent - it's more that I wonder why they need to talk about it. I'm not struggling with substance use myself. Though, I do worry if I have talk about how I was ina shitty situation which someone who did use drugs and lie about it they may play devil's advocate and say something like "oh your ex was just trying to survive" and view my ex as the more vulnerable person for struggling with substance use, instead of missing the fact I was constantly lied to and basically in a weird relationship that messed me up for a long time.
If she uses reddit she'll probably recognize this, but ah well.
I think that my whole question is around... do therapists always use their own beliefs in conversation so much? And does it make sense it's kind of lowering my own sense of safety and ability to express myself in sessions, because I feel like if I have a different belief, they're just going to argue with me or go on a tangent about their own?