I've been seeing my T for 5 months, we meet twice a week. We clicked immediately. I'm 40, and this is my first time seeing a T as an adult. She's told me she cares about me and that she holds me in deep regard.

She has shown that she cares by checking up on me while on vacations or between sessions if I had a particularly bad one, she gives me a long, healing hug at the end of every session, and most recently she's come over to sit next to me and hold me if I need the care or reassurance. So not only has she said it, but she shows it too. Do I think I'm "special?" No. My guess is she's probably this way with any of her clients who are accepting of it.

Although she did text me photos once, of a place she went on vacation, because I had mentioned how I'd love to see a pic. She sent several. Even though there are times I'm not thrilled to go to a session, I am very happy to have found and clicked with a T right off the bat. I didn't ask her about boundaries or what she accepted/didn't accept, but I'm thankful she is who she is, and does what she does. I know a lot of Ts restrict "touch" to just a hand shake, or charge for reading/responding to Emails. My T encourages me to Email her, and they can be long. But she also knew, especially near the beginning, that writing was a lot easier for me than talking face to face. She learned a lot about me through Emails, that, had she not accepted, she may never have known. Some things just didn't seem important for me to share, yet she felt were VERY important. I'm thankful to have her.