I think there is in my therapy anyway. One time I told t that I had recognized I was coming to her telling her something exciting "like a kid running home from school saying mommy mommy look what I did" (which I NEVER did as a child). She made a comment that was along the lines of I can use her for whatever I need her to be or something like that. I'm over-simplifying because I don't recall her exact words. But anyway that's kinda what it was all about, I guess, having an experience (within the safe confines of the therapeutic relationship) that I didn't get as a child.