Yes - this is what I can do on bad days, except I don't think of the therapist as a parent and I do believe therapists are trying to manipulate and control clients. I think the therapist may see herself as in a sort of role where she has the familiarity or position or audacity to presume she has the right to bestow praise and that pisses me off because to me she does not.
When others (lovers, coworkers, friends, even my dad) give praise, it is not horrible like with that therapist, but it is not really motivating either. With the others it is just sort of neutral. I don't really need it or feel great if I get it, but I am not enraged at the presumptiveness of it like I am with the therapist.