Since we brought up therapy techniques and approaches, anyone knows what it is when a T mirrors the client's shares with stories and examples from their own life and personality? That's what my second T did all the time, what creates and reinforces that twinship feeling so powerfully (apart from all of our clearly overlapping interests). Lots of disclosures. I asked once why he does that and he said to express his empathy. I imagine that for some people who are so inclined, that approach might trigger very powerful ET, all that emphasized alikeness.