Rupture got resolved. T is emotionally over-involved on a couple of subjects that are current for me. We also have too many things in common to divert in a personal talk, we'll aim to eschew these topics. T got genuinely insecure about having T's issues showing up in a direct way in therapy. The rupture came from T's core issues were triggered by my current issues, and we've grown to have a closer, more personal relationship, where T's self-disclosures - while directed to be helpful for me - got T carried away, because it was helpful for T as well. During these times we were working more like two clients in a group therapy setting. We've talked these through. I feel this was a major breakthrough. I'm awesomely happy about the situation, and it actually helped me immensely to resolve my issue to see someone battling with it, almost the same way as me. We're in the ending phase now.

T is a very serious therapist, and our sittings were hardest to bear for T professionally as now. This was a place of immense growth for both of us. I'm going to miss our days in counseling, but I feel happy to think about our relationship having fulfilled its purposes.

Thinking about it retrospectively, I don't find it useful to conceptualize T's reaction as countertransference. It was real in that T was both an active participant in an ethical dilemma, was questioning T's own expertise, and T's problematic pathologies got triggered. T is now attending supervision. Both of us are happy with the current outcome, and the plans for the future.