As a t I can firmly say I do understand but only because I have been through the throes of ET so many times myself. It's so painful and heartbreaking. I only wish that therapists did understand but I can say that on my training I was the only t in training who had experienced it. The others tried to understand but I could see the looks of horror and judgement on their faces. I did my research on it this year for my degree and a lot of t s have had no training on it. We touched on it very briefly but nothing in depth. Having experienced it myself I am comfortable with a client bringing it to me. I am not afraid of it and would feel privileged if someone said they had feelings for me of course I know that it's not really about me it's more about us and our dynamic. I got terminated by my first t because of ET, my trainers this year said I should have put in a malpractice complaint but I was so heartbroken I just wanted to die. It's excruciatingly painful and it takes a lot of guts to bring it to your therapist. My research focussed on the therapists reactions and as I suspected none of them wanted to work with these clients. I feel so sad as i read that, as I looked into it further a lot of it was because they hadn't learnt anything about it in their training but also because they found it terrifying.