Are you suggesting that her lack of empathic responses or emotional feedback and instead jumping into questioning or analysis is because she couldn't "automatically feel what the other person feels?" I don't think one needs experience to convey empathy. A therapist who has never been married can have a patient who is presenting with issues in her marriage. A production of imagination? Yeah; it definitely takes imagination. Perhaps her mind isn't imagining anything of what I'm saying. Perhaps her mind is focused on the intellectual and analytical side of it. That's why I think she may be more suited to be a psychoanalyst rather than a psychodynamic therapist. LoL. Because while hers is a different style, no effective therapy can be done - even for a patient who is intellectually-minded - because healing comes not only from intellectual self-reflection, but also emotional insight.