Huh. Well, the good news is that it sounds like you have a healthy relationship with your T which will serve as a good model for other healthy relationships outside of therapy.

Another possibility is that it's some way your T is different than your former counselor. Not to blame transference on the counselor...but I do sometimes read stories on here where I think, "Wow. It almost seems like the T is encouraging this." Which, hey, some of them do. They make douchebags in all professions.