There's not exact translation of 'I care about you' in my language. My T has said lots of things that show he cares on some level. But never exactly that he just cares about me, and I doubt he would say it like that. He says things like 'I care about whether you get better' or that he enjoys working with me, or that he'd be sad if I were to suddenly disappear. But those things always focus on some part that is not just me as a person. The reason I think my T would not word it as caring about me personally is because that doesn't align with how he seems to see therapy. I don't think that means that he doesn't on some level care, but that he doesn't want to say it to me in that way, because that would not be beneficial for me.