My T's memory is good and I'm not sure he takes any notes. However, I would absolutely hate if my T would say to me back my own words. I would not be touched at all, but rather irritated. To me it means parroting. If he can't rephrase what I said then it means that he just memorised what I said but really didn't understand anything.

Needless to say, it is very hard to reflect things back to me because that sounds very much like parroting again. Then I'm like "isn't it exactly what I told you? Do you think that I don't know what I'm telling you so that you have to repeat it back to me?"