@LavenderFG
So happy to hear you are looking into yoga:) Come on be a yoga girl with us!
I find that it doesn't have to be friends with people immediately, it's human interaction and contact that will make you feel good. After a while people will get to know you.
When I started in a new city I knew absolutely no one. So I started gong to yoga because I always wanted to. I went for me, so I would have something to do and feel good about myself, plus the social interaction.
I always smiled and said hello to everyone, said thank you, recommended classes, said I had enjoyed something and why, chatted a bit with the person at the desk who was also a teacher, basically chatted a bit with everyone and anyone at every opportunity! Just that alone was so, so good for me.
After just a few weeks I became a regular known face, hearing someone at reception say "Lu is here, she did the earlier class too" to a teacher, honestly it was amazing. I felt like I existed.
So if you are interested in yoga, I am really happy!
I try to take classes and study too, as someone else suggested. Again I feel like I am achieving something, it's me social interaction, gives me a feeling of who I am. I take language classes. Everyone is immediately a community in these because we are all staring at each other completely lost. Plus language classes always have "ok now practice that with your neighbour" parts, so you get a little bit of chatting and getting to know people. I do recommend these because everyone has a story (often, I want to learn something new and meet some new people!). So you get to know things about others and them about you that are those steps to knowing each other and being known.
I would say, as someone who deals with this kind of situation all the time (I sound like a guru here with a perfect life but oh no, not at all, I'm just working on it every day!), focus on you. Not making friends at first, think about you.
You want to take up yoga for example. You volunteer at an animal shelter. You go to whatever drop at a local church. You like to do whatever it is. All these things are for you and give you a feeling of identity and who you are.
With that sense of feeling good about yourself and identity as art of group, people who love yoga, people who love animals, people who volunteer, people who whatever, confidence comes and from that you have a way to connect with others. It can take a few weeks before someone says "I'm getting coffee, do you want to come" after a yoga class, or you say it to someone and they actually say yes (don't take it personally if people say no, it's never personal!), or a bit of time in a language class for example before you are doing homework with each other for half an hour before the class, although this actually comes really quickly. Church things too, I think that's often an arms open come join feeling, so that's good if it happens. Let these things take the time they need and unfold as they naturally do.
Look what has happened here, you have just been yourself, had the courage to speak and just be yourself and you've created a little community!
The social interaction and the social identity that you can create for yourself will really make you feel better in terms of not feeling lonely or without purpose, I promise. From that, you can go so many places.
Yes, get a new therapist.
Keep talking here, I love hearing your plans and how things are!