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None of the above, but: Yes, and my therapist seems to try to offer it but is too transparent about his more negative feelings to be able to pull it off.
I think it's one of the better ideas to come out of Rogerian psychology, but I don't think every therapist is naturally capable of or suited to providing it. I know many persons of strong and clear conviction who still manage to provide an authentic variety of unconditional positive regard in all kinds of interactions, but my therapist is not one of them.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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