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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
Your therapy might not require a particular relationship. Some people use their therapists as a sounding board or for advice and strategies on particular issues. Other people require something else. If your issue (or one of them) is that you have not experienced a secure enough attachment early on, then the attachment becomes your focus and the relationship pretty much is the therapy while whatever content you discuss is secondary.
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I had been in and out of therapy for years. The sounding board kind of therapy. I never did "heal" from it, but got some insight. I have an extensive trauma background and did not experience secure attachments. My relationship with my current T, as you have stated IS the therapy. I do have the whole transference thing going on (positive father-figure) and it is brutal, but SO beneficial. I guess it all depends on the therapist and what you're looking to get out of therapy.