I think it is the most useful part of therapy for me. I have trouble with trust and abandonment - and by just going there each week and talking to him, and him not looking frustrated or annoyed or disappointed or all those other things? That's helpful to me. I know it's his job to have a great poker face, but it's still useful. I've already had a lot of practice with him of saying the sorts of things that I am absolutely terrified to say - and I've now told him a few times about being upset with things that involve him... and twice have told him about things I was upset about WHILE I was upset.

Which are all unheard of for me.

So... learning to trust him is probably the best thing he can help do for me.