Interesting -- mine's the opposite. Gets really peeved and keeps questioning me about how I don't feeeeeeeel she cares beyond what her professional ethics would dictate because you know, my f-ed up stuff. I've told her I'm really good with just the competence and that the reason I show up is because of her competence and not how she feeeeeeels about me.

But beyond getting peevish and harping over that, I doubt she'd ever be remotely caught dead doing things like check-in emails or extending session times or basically do anything to actually provide evidence. The email stuff would go against her written contract for starters.

It sucks only because it brings up crap for me on how people in my life would insist they're doing much more than I actually perceive (i.e., I'm just being an ungrateful snot etc). So, I feel like I have to somehow assuage her ego at times by saying something like "Yesss, I feeeeeeel your caring" (because well, you've not yelled at me or humiliated me like I'm usually used to) or basically kowtow and say that "Yes, I'm so f-ed up that I clearly can't see that you're dripping with care".

I would feel so much more comfortable if she'd just get off the business of me putting a stamp of approval on her "caring". She's pretty okay otherwise and in session, has been rather gentle when I've hit some low lows. So yeah, I am quite appreciative of that (contrary to what one might expect, I haven't always gotten that from therapists).