You must be firmly entrenched in the CBT camp. I do not go to therapy to learn coping skills. My therapist is not in his job just to teach coping skills. Coping skills are, in my opinion, just a band aid. I go to therapy to process and try to heal from things in my past. I couldn't do that work without an attachment to my therapist. It's not unhealthy to have an attachment to your therapist.

I went once a week for maybe 6 or 7 months before switching to twice a week. 45 minutes once a week wasn't cutting it for me. There was too much to talk about in my daily life to even get to processing anything. Adding that second session opened up some space to allow getting at things on a deeper level.

You're obviously entitled to your opinion, but it's not as black and white as you seem to think it is. Maybe do some reading about how the relationship with the therapist is what is healing. That may not be what everyone wants or needs or responds to, but other people can and do.