pinksoil, I think you will do great as a T!

RE countertransference: I know one thing that helps me with my own T, is that when he is having countertransference (at least some times), he voices it outloud to me, that he is having it and struggling to contain it, to do the right thing. It's kind of like by acknowledging it, the countertransference somehow loses part of its power or hold. (Plus it makes the client feel included in the therapeutic process, a must for humanistic T's, like my guy.) I don't know if that would fit into your approach or not.

A favorite book of mine is called The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination by Robert Coles, who was a psychiatrist and professor of literature at Harvard. The first few chapters are about his internship in a hospital as a brand new pdoc/therapist. One of the big things he learned from his supervisor was just to listen to his patients, rather than trying fancy/advanced interventions and interpretations at first. He uses a lot of literature in his therapy, so you might also find that interesting, given your bent toward lit.