My T is only a little older than me, 6 years, but yes, I have experienced her as an authority figure. Sort of the transference thing though of me feeling like a child being scolded.....just a part of my pattern in relationships often anyway (my H who DOES treat me like a child because he is so much older than me and that's his nature too.....). So it has transferred into how I have perceived T and reacted to her at times, thinking I am in 'trouble'......when I am not! Like she says, I am not your mother, I am not scolding you!