I think I go about it differently than some others. I don't think that I have ever thought others could take care of me properly past small childhood. Not that they wouldn't try - but that they would screw it up and so it is simply better to do it myself. I don't need taking care of for the most part anyway.
I don't see therapists as any better at anything than most of the other people I know, so giving power over to them would not seem useful to me. I have no faith in the therapist's ability to take care of a client. Her few and feeble attempts at inserting herself have been appalling and unnecessary.