Mouse, your posts brings to mind the term ''corrective emotional experience'', and how wonderful that your t is providing that corrective emotional experience for you, so that you can feel safe to venture out.....
In the book, ''Parenting From the Inside Out'' the authors write that when a child has a secure base (at home, I guess) he/she is free to explore and expand and venture out....I guess the same holds true for the therapist/client relationship.