I think my T has reacted to me emotionally a few times, with great tenderness, but the one thing that really stands out was when he told me that his neck was hurting in the same spot that mine was hurting. He told me this at the end of session, that he had felt the neck pain that I was talking about, and he chose not to do anything to make it disappear. That it was a gift to him to be able to experience this little piece of my world, or something like that. And I'm not sure exactly what he meant but I know that when my work involves very intense, emotional issues and when people work hard to explain their experience, it IS a gift to be a part of that process. It's sort of like how extreme athletes talk about what it's like to stretch their physical capabilities as far as they can. Doing this work requires T's to stretch their emotional capacities to the limit. Maybe allowing themselves to feel what we feel is the same thing.