If I were a Therapist, and I knew a patient had erotic feelings and a huge
dependence on me, and had declared her love for me, and I received an
email from her, "Do you care about me" I would be pretty careful how I
responded to her. I would not want to mislead her in any way, I would not want to leave my answer subject to interpretation, and I would do so
clearly and firmly but in a way to hurt her as little as possible.

I'm too chicken to ask him right out if he is sexually attracted to me
therefore my beat around the bush question about caring. I would think
he would have read between the lines and responded that it was just a
professional/patient/therapist way of caring.

Guess I'm beating a dead horse.