I think clients confuse feeling supported, feeling heard, the therapist making them feel good with love. I think the idea of being "healed" by the love of a therapist and by the therapeutic "relationship" is one pushed by therapists and it's incredibly dangerous and frankly creepy. It has a lot of religious and cultish elements to it. People waste years of their life and so much money chasing a fantasy: there are dozens of horror stories all over the internet and yet people rationalize them, jump through mental hoops to dismiss them because they want that "high", that specialness. Look, I've been there. I thought I loved my ex therapist. I didn't. I didn't know her, and mostly what I loved was how she was making me feel sometimes. She sure as **** didn't love me. Thankfully I didn't end up traumatized like so many people did. Ultimately it's an illusion and the healthy thing to do is not to fall for that. I know it's easy to say and harder to do since a lot of therapists push this "healing through love" idea because 1) they're clueless and don't think it through and 2) because it makes THEM feel good, therapy is for therapists after all.