I liked my T from the beginning and my unconscious reeeeeally liked him. The second session, I shared a dream I had with him in it and I think the next session too. My unconscious had a really significant relationship with him before I did. I liked the way he responded when I told him the things that happened between us in my dreams. Also, he self-disclosed very early on, at my unconscious request and this just made so much fall into place. I think I trusted him more because he was willing to add some reciprocity to our relationship. I also had some hard things to share and wasn't able to at first, and he was very patient and respected my reluctance. When I did share little things, he responded well and showed he could handle it, and that encouraged me to share more and bigger stuff.

I did know pretty much right from the start that we had a connection and that if anyone could help me, it was going to be him.

We have had a couple of ruptures, but not too many. I remember once I got angry at him and that was really hard for me to express that since I don't really get angry at people. But he was really encouraging and helped me get it out. It was quite an amazing experience for me to get angry at someone and not have there be really bad repercussions. All this contributed to trust--T wanted to know all sides of me, including the angry one.

I read somewhere once that the client usually knows within 6 sessions or so if the relationship is going to work.