My first T did but in ways that did not fit with me at all and were not appealing at all - obviously erratic and insecure. I felt more interested/somewhat attached in the beginning, but less and less so as I got to know him better, and in the end he was very repulsive for me.

Second T sort of, in a sense that he spoke about the relationship and was always supportive, welcoming etc when I had healthy reactions, but in balanced and subtle ways that worked for me. He also never attempted to displace whatever happened between us and rarely used defensively as transference like my first T, unless I wanted to discuss it that way. I am not sure how much he helped me as a T per se, but is a person I liked at start and continued to like, we had a steady, good and pleasant connection. It was a healthy kind of loose attachment and still is in some way as we email occasionally, but I would not pay someone for the same again, much better to develop similar relationships in everyday life for me. I don't think I ever would or could engage in very deep, powerful attachment with a T - the unnatural nature of the therapy construct makes it unreasonable and unattractive for me. Not that it is a professional relationship - I experienced various kinds of attachments to colleagues and mentors before, but those unfolded naturally and were not placed into a predetermined structure even if they started out in a hierarchical format. My attachment system is such that it gets quickly turned off if the interest is not mutual and has the same intensity on both ends, so even with someone like my last T, I think it would be impossible to go beyond a certain point. And if someone actively encourages it without my feeling up to it, it just tends to alienate me. In fact, these were some of the major mistakes my first T made with me, in addition to misinterpreting me grossly - he and I just have very different, quite incompatible attachment styles, I think. I believe that these need to be compatible for a relationship to work well, therapy or other.