For me it was very healing. Because it just felt to me, coming from my T, that she meant it. People "just say it" all the time. But my T not only said it, but showed me in ways I never had to question it. But my T was also not consistent in her modalities, and ended up taking those words away, as well as some actions that "proved it" to me.

So knowing what I know now, I'd rather not have heard it. If you are one who can hear it, hold those words with you without needing to hear them again sometime, then I'd feel safe letting that happen. But having my T use them, then change her mind and tell me the use of those words was not "genuine," was damaging to me.