I have often worried that I was too "needy" as a client. I have seen my therapist for over 20 years now. I see her once a week. There were times I saw her once a month but life changed and I am able to see her by choice every week. In the many years I have known her she has helped me to grow up...lacking much maternal support growing up and fending for myself emotionally has impacted me immensely. So with her help and guidance, I have been able to do so many positive things in my life I had never thought possible. She allows me to write letters to her between sessions if I feel it necessary and she allows phone calls in between sessions also (which I rarely do because I feel like then I am really bothering her) even though she reassures me that it is not a bother and she would let me know if she felt it was problematic. Here's the deal I do sometimes feel special in my head as her client. Not sure if it is because of the length of the relationship (she has a couple more clients who have been with her as long as I have), or her approach with me that is different than her approach with many other clients. She has gone above and beyond my expectations when I am dealing with very early abandonment issues. She attends one event in public with me once a year because it is an event that she enjoys and she knows I enjoy. In fact we just had our "event" this past week. This has been going on for about 15 years. I never see her otherwise outside of my session. But I do feel awesome when she does this for me. I have asked her why she continues to do this for me and she always replies "I know how much it means to you" and she also says she likes it alot too. Just this week she let me know that she, in fact, on her day off attended my photo show with a friend of hers. I had kidded her a few weeks back that she should go and see it and she DID! WOW! and the exhibit is not close to where she lives. Made me feel great...my family never went to see my show but she did. As I type this out I am smiling. So am I needy or do I just have a perfectly wonderful caring therapist?? I told her she can never retire! Ha! She is in her late 60s...