My T does not do much of that either. She has occasionally given me print outs on things like boundaries, co-dependency, and emotional regulation. I found the boundaries print out made no sense to me until I actually set a few in place, lol.

Yes, mine do. Vicariously through that, if it is about other people, I learn my own patterns and how to take a more non-judgement stance in my life. When pertaining to me, it helps me think, change or feel normalized. We do this often... So maybe I'm confused in te difference between education and the entirety of my therapy experience, but its the common work I do in therapy. An example I would consider education was today when I told my T I didn't understand what I wanted or needed from some anger I was feeling with her and we explored, and I learned. Or, another example, I am learning not to say "they felt", "they think", "they seem like", "they/she/he must be/think/believe _______." It's nearly put off my vocabulary and I exchange it for "I feel" statements as we talk about why I feel that way. I'm not sure if those things count, but that's what I'm counting. As far as explaining concepts, that's a common occurrence also - but I have a very technical brain, I want to understand any concept that comes up so it is in my "toolbox". If I don't know how or why something works I can't manipulate it to work best for me. Unsure if that is helpful... I'm like a 3yo: What's that? Why?

Do you ask questions?

Maybe my T does it more than I realize? Like slip it in there? I do ask a lot of questions but his tendency is NOT to psychobabble too much. I think he tries to come across as a regular guy as opposed to this seer.

you've talked about psychoeducation before and i never knew what you were talking about ... because my T didn't do much or any of that either. i frequently wished that he did. but after you said about how maybe your T leaves it out because he wants to appear more "normal" i'm thinking maybe that was my T's slant as well. maybe he thought i'd be too intimidated by his knowledge. which i might have been, knowing me. on the other hand i wish i'd have asked him to be more forth-right with that stuff

My T does this a lot. It closely relates to mentalizing where you hold a mind (yours or another's) in mind to understand how and why that mind ticks that way.