I have attached to my therapist with a parental/child level of transference. At first it was very confusing and I was very angry about it and the neediness that was coming from it. As we progressed, I've come to realize how much I actually trust her. I have gotten to a place where I often miss her but I am not as needy as I was. At times, I feel a deep level of love for her. This love is still the type one would have towards a parent. I have felt that I am going through development stages with her - that I am emotionally aging.

Does transference change? I am starting to have fear that the transference will become erotic. I don't want that. I feel it would complicate things for me significantly. What little I have found about stages or changes in transference, is that eventually they all go through a stage of erotic transference.

Has anyone experienced either it changing or completing psychotherapy without it changing? If you experienced it changing, how was it for you, how did you deal with it?

Thank you