I am with T who is same sex as bad parent. I rejected the idea at first, but when I needed a T and had a very hard time finding a woman T, I broadened my criteria. It could be a male, but he had to look completely different than that other guy. I have had some reactions, and some interesting sensory experiences. His office smells like him, it has taken me a long time to be ok with man smell, but now it's kinda comforting, cause he's super chill man and so everything that is associated with him is comforting. My T say's some of the things that come up are memories being processed. That not all memories have words to them. Maybe that's what's happening to you.