Therapist keeps minimizing my situation? (CBT)

I need outside perspective because I genuinely don’t know if I’m being too sensitive or if this is actually not great.

Whenever I talk about how overwhelmed I’ve been the past few years, especially with my family stuff, my therapist tends to respond with things like “we don’t have a crystal ball,” “this is temporary,” and “the past few years don’t predict the next 20.”

And I get what she’s trying to do. I know I can think in extremes sometimes, and I know technically anything could change.

But here’s the part that’s getting to me—my mom has cancer, my aunt (mom’s sister) has cancer, and both of their situations are terminal. On top of that, I’ve been dealing with ongoing stress and burnout for years now.

So when I’m talking about how heavy all of that feels, and the response I get is basically “this is temporary,” it just… doesn’t feel accurate? It feels really invalidating, honestly.

I’m not trying to say everything is hopeless or that nothing will ever improve. I just want it to feel like she actually understands that this is long-term and serious, not just something I can fix by thinking about it differently.

But it feels like every time I bring it up, it gets turned back into “that’s your thinking” or “you’re focusing on the negative,” and I’m just sitting there like… no, this is just what’s happening in my life right now.

Idk. Has anyone dealt with this? Is this just how CBT is, or does this sound like a mismatch?