I agree that your T1 sounds like a more attuned therapist, though for myself I prefer a few clarifying questions--either for facts or to encourage me to re-think--than getting her perspective, which I don't think she has ever done directly.

Question back to you: If you're sharing something particularly difficult to talk about, does she ask you one or two concrete questions for clarification? Mine has done that a few times and it surprised me how assuring it was to be asked. In a less intense example, I'd briefly shared about a home invasion. She asked me how I keep myself safe today. In contrast, past therapists have tried to move me right out of the fear and into reframing my life today. I just found it very accepting. So maybe that's why I like your first therapist's attentiveness.