My difficulty was obedience and self-abnegation rather than affection. However it was a powerful attachment, likely similar to being in, then leaving a cult.

Helpful: Deflating my deification by understanding my therapist in human terms, as a junior high then college student, visualizing his training and his own self-doubts setting up a practice, seeing him in his morning routine, understanding his behavior as defensiveness rather than superiority or wondrousness.

Also: diving into life. Though unplanned, I made many life-changing expansive changes after leaving my most destructive therapy. They kept me busy and challenged. (I succeeded in this transition.) Setting and meeting goals, trying new things got my thinking out of this destructive relationship and back to life.

Sometimes a set-back can spark a new adventure. Best finding a path.