My focus would not be on the love part, as the idea that every client loves a therapist is one I do not hold. Nor do I feel the therapists I see have any sort of love or affection at me. I am but tolerable. I most assuredly do not love either I see. At best I don't despise them. But her idea of therapy also sounds limited. I do not believe it is the only way for a client to figure out a way to make therapy useful. Perhaps my way is not what the therapist deems therapy, but as I am the one paying for it, I believe I can say whether the use I created is good enough for me or not.

I do not find the therapist or therapy to be a person or place for compassion, empathy, or caring. I don't desire those things and they do not exist in the experience I pay for. So while I might not consider them wrong if someone reported such things were in the therapy they pay for, I do not believe they are part of the job description at all.