Transference, as I understand it and as one definition on the internet puts it, is:
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the redirection to a substitute, usually a therapist, of emotions that were originally felt in childhood
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So, in the service of "knowing yourself" and "getting in touch" with your feelings, it could be a "good" thing that you felt those feelings. The challenge is, though, to see if you can remember anything like them from your childhood, and to fully feel and process them and what they meant to you at the time.
However, this process -- my experience of it, anyway -- can be extremely challenging and generate a lot of anxiety and need for support of some sort to replace the support that is now missing from the therapist and, ultimately, at least as far as theory goes, from one's childhood.
Doesn't sound like the psychiatric nurse would be a lot of help. That's too bad, but if that's the way it is, that's the way it is.