In my last session, my T ended up reading aloud to me - he read me the poem My Name Is Toxic Shame, and he read out a story I had written at my request. I felt like a child being read to, in a good way. I kind of wish he could just spend the next few sessions reading to me.

If you think about it, good Ts act a lot like parents (or models of how parents should be) because they provide models for secure attachment and allow us to throw tantrums and show emotions without rejecting us.