My T taught me the difference between "love" and "like" and also to identify my emotions. But I got so I really liked her listening skills.

When I think about what I needed and wanted, those things seemed to show up at different times in therapy. Was pretty handy. I remember at first, my T's sense of "timing" was awesome, she didn't speak often but when she did it was right on the money and extremely helpful and almost like she was reading my mind. Over the years though that seemed to "go away" which puzzled me until we were talking about it and realized I didn't need that anymore, had "outgrown" it. It is a little like how when you're a child time does funny things because you haven't had very much of it yet and when you get older, it seems to go faster, etc. As I got so I could figure things out all by myself, I didn't need her to "be there" with a directing or interpreting comment; like teaching a toddler to walk by giving them both hands then only your index finger to hold on to, then their not needing anything.