In my opinion and from what I've learned, it's not possible not to experience transference / not just with therapists but with most people we meet - but of course, that would also depend on how one defines transference. I have experienced transference in my relationship with my therapist and sure enough, in six years I've had time to see in him a boyfriend, a father, a brother, a best friend, a mother, a grandmother, a good teacher, even a school bully ... and yet, to me, that is just one side of transference. Recently I've come to notice our dynamic of feeling the same things about each other and each other's actions - for example, when I feel like he is crossing my boundaries, he feels I am putting pressure on his. When he feels interrupted by me, I feel interrupted by him, etc. When I feel powerless, he feels powerless, or the other way around. Before that, toward the beginning of my therapy but also for a few years, it was very important to me to see our similarities (similar experiences, birthdays that are one the day after the other, similar attitudes and hobbies, etc). Before that, in the first several months of therapy, he was my role model and I wanted to become a therapist who works exactly like him. Both these and other aspects of our experience together are deeper types of transference, in my view. There is a lot of complex literature around transference which I found very useful.