Interesting question, lily! I struggle with attachment and love in therapy also. I think most Ts would say (my former T in fact told me this) that it is common to feel love for one's T. After all, they show US love by the way they treat us. It's true that we pay them, but the therapeutic relationship turns out to be a kind of mutual love for many of us in therapy, though not all. It depends on why we entered therapy. I've only known my new T for about 6 months, but I already feel attached to her, and those feelings do feel like love too.

I'm not sure if it's necessary or helpful to decide whether the feelings are attachment or love. They're probably both. I don't think you're a naive teen!