Such a common narrative. Client arrives in therapy looking for help with some problems. Ends up in bizarre relationship quagmire with therapist and exits with new set of problems.

I had strong feelings for one therapist. I said so. The therapist claimed not to have any mutual feelings. Though some signs indicated otherwise. It was degrading and pointless and stupid to go thru this.

What good can come of this? If you reveal ANY sort of feelings for the therapist you are bound to get back something awful:
- reciprocal feelings, which cannot be acted upon
- unrequited feelings, likely to be humiliating possibly damaging, but which are supposed to be tolerated for purpose of "analyzing" the feelings
- ambiguity and evasion
- a bunch of psychobabble and a "diagnosis"

If it becomes intolerable, you run to a new therapist.. Perhaps the new therapist is a matronly type, and you fall into a surrogate mother fixation. Same dilemma... disclose this and face humiliation/rejection/weirdness, keep it a secret (healthy!), bail to yet another therapist. Repeat for next 10+ years.