I agree with you.

When I was first understanding how relationships worked, I was misguided (not intentionally) by a crisis counselor person who said my T was using "x" approach and then, after research, found out how "x" approach doesn't value the therapeutic relationship.

So of course I spazzed out on T, who told me that she wasn't a proponent of "x" approach and she went on to tell me that her approach (which I asked her not to tell me specifically what it is, so maybe its the same as yours) is heavily relationship based and that studies show that approaches that focus on the therapeutic relationship have greater success rates long term than those who don't.

Heck, she could even be basing it on the same study *shrug*