I think I got pretty freaked out when I first started attaching strongly to my therapist. I had no experience with that and thought it was highly abnormal and unhealthy (I hardly knew this man, who was a paid professional!). Through reading (the "In Session" book and others) as well as exchanging information here on PC, I learned that strong attachment to one's therapist is very normal and in fact, therapeutic. This normalizing of my experience made me feel not as freaked out about it. Now I have a strongly attached relationship with my T and am very comfortable with that.