Since I am baffled at the whole what a therapist can do that would ever be supportive notion, then perhaps I am missing the point.
I just know that the two I see are both psychodynamic but it feels very different with each one. The one I perceive as "nicer" (I am not really certain that is the right word but using the terms we have going here), I am much more willing to have say harder things that I may consider. The second one has more finesse with me than the first. I am more attached (I guess that would be the word although I am not certain it is correct) to the first one with whom I am constantly locked in struggle to communicate with. The second one I don't quit, I don't take breaks, I don't leave in a frustrated rage every week, and I think about the concepts rather than the lack of communication with her. She is not a pushover and she keeps the talk focussed on the uncomfortable. So I guess I think nice does count in someways. I do hear stuff from her that I would reject from the first one because of how the second one approaches it. Perhaps finesse rather than nice as such. I don't think of the second as nice in a vacuum, just if compared to the first. I do think she is more skilled at working with me. It is not that I find the concepts with the second are comfortable.