Great great great topic.

My T is fab with eye contact. I was having some problems with him initially, so I stopped seeing him and tried another therapist in the interim. It just didn't work with the new guy. I narrowed it down to his body language -- he was really energetic, shifted a lot, and always looked like he wanted to dash off to go mountain hiking or something. (Oh -- and he never read my intake form that I slaved over! I could tell, because he kept asking me basic questions that he would have known, if he'd bothered to read my file. Dumba$$!)

And -- now that you mention it, his eye contact wasn't as good as the first T. So I went back to him.

The eye contact thing is SO important. Mine only breaks contact when he has to check the time. I still hate it though I wish there was some other way of figuring out when the session ends!