Yes, I could be friends with my therapist. I like him as a person and I think we'd have a ton to learn from each other's different interests (he's good with sports and dancing, I'm good with foreign languages and linguistics and social media) and we're both warm, caring people with a sense of humor. At the beginning of my therapy (a few months in) I wouldn't have traded this therapeutic relationship for the world and I would have chosen it any day over being friends even if being friends felt appealing. Nowadays, I often wonder if maybe I'd be better off with this therapist as a friend and working with another therapist. But I doubt he would accept being friends after termination (we'd still be colleagues but that is definitely not the same).