For me, transference with my current comes and goes. I would say it took around 6 months. But that's because I went into her office, announced that I wasn't going to let myself experience transference and that she was my practice as to not let myself look upon ANOTHER person as a mother figure. I told her I didn't want that, didn't need that and was not going to let it happen. Then 6 months elapsed, and it happened, but that's where I pull back. I told her I rely on the sessions, but I never told her I rely on HER. I've been seeing her about 2 years.