I'm just getting started with therapy, but I have to echo what skully just said. It helps me to have someone to talk to that doesn't judge me, and in fact has said that she is there to help me so that we work as a team for me to get better - and when she says it I believe her. She may say the same thing to many other people, but when she says it to me, I feel like I have an ally.
Good question Sophia!