My T was recommended by my group T after I was rattling around without a T for awhile, I guess getting on the group T's nerves :-) I was in a bad place and swore the first time I saw her (after an hour drive to get to her office in another state) that she'd be the last individual T I'd see, it would either "work" or else :-(

Early on, in one of our first sessions she jumped into one of my half-conscious ramblings and "appeared" inside of me, knives drawn, on the path I was going down by saying, "Stop that!" I was taken aback; literally, figuratively, everyively you can imagine and had to backtrack in my own mind and think for a moment to figure out what "that" was and then I was in absolute awe of her "powers" :-) and that she cared enough to "do" that and silently swore I'd commit everything in me to working as hard as I could with her. That awe and promise got me through the next 30 years and is still with me today.

My T was not from the US and I had some trouble with things in my background relative to her nationality but I liked her "age," 10+ years older than myself and that she was female helped me enormously I think with my particular problems.