I’m a bit curious about this:
I had to stop seeing the first T that I saw because I felt worse and worse as the time went by. My therapy with her triggered intense feelings of distress, I recognised the feelings as being from my early childhood. I saw her for 9 months. I was attached to her and it was hard to stop, but I dread to think what would have happened to me if I hadn’t. The surprising thing is that I felt intense feelings of love for her. I then saw another T, and it was a similar story, I had to stop seeing her because I felt so bad, I also had feelings of love, not as intense as before. I then saw T3, my therapy with her was completely different, over time I felt secure with her, difficult feelings came up at times, but over time I felt close and safe with her. The surprising thing is that I didn’t feel the same intense (and perhaps painful) love, maybe I still loved her, but it was different. I am now seeing T4, again I am starting to feel secure with her, and I’m feeling a great benefit in seeing her. I’m again not feeling that intense love, though I’m very attached to her. It seems like the intense love is somehow related to the triggering of the early childhood distress? Or some kind of regression that triggered early childhood or infant emotions? I’m interested to hear what others think of this.

Just to add, there are many threads on here that reflect on therapy’s failings, I would prefer this to be a thread where people share their positive reflections.