Can you make up a word for the T-relationship?

I had a much better session today! T told me something about her morning because she remembered that I want to know things! Then later, when we discussed my email and our relationship, she suggested that we make up a word to describe the unique relationship we have. I can't think of anything yet. This is for those who have a close positive relationship. Not to negate that we're clients, but something expressing the connection and intimacy. T even said it's often "more than friends". So, I'm looking for ideas.

Therapy-with-benefits joke.

Frustrating

Uniques - ical ( a bit like popsical )

therabuddies

Not sure I like that but it's all I can think of!

Wait... my therapist is german so that would be...

Therapie-mit-Vorteilen

No but now i have this picture of my t in my head as Sir Fix-a-Lot, "i like big buts(sic) and i cannot lie, when someone with resistance stops on by..."

Omg!! Lololol. When can we expect to hear the rest of the verse?

Consumer or service for hire.

Since you asked for positive, how about something along the lines of a sherpa? As in they carry your (emotional) stuff and know the way and without them you would die. But they are only there for a part of your life.

Theratives - a unique bond between two people that is different to friendship, not a blood relative but a strong connection grown through years of therapy

Glad this was a better session for you rain

Thank you! I sent you a PM reply. Did you make up therative? I like it!

Therpa???

I like it!

I like Sherpa and Therpa very much, as describing who the T is, but I think I'm looking for what the relationship is for the client too, as what Wren suggested.

T and I are theratives. T is my therpa, but I'm not hers.
T had in mind to find a substitute for "friend" because that's not what we are.

I just thought of therabond as the relationship we have, and that would make us therabondits? Therabonders?

Partnership? Acquaintances?

My T and I are much more than acquaintances. Partnership is accurate but partners seems to me to have a romantic connotation.

So far I like "theratives" best. Thanks, Wren.

Any more ideas?

Compeer? Confederate? Collaborator?

OMG, I once told my ex T, she's like a Sherpa as we scale the mountain of therapy together.

Just kinda pleased!

I like this alot

Rainbow,

Since therapy deals so often with things of the heart, maybe the relationship should be a "heartship," rather than a "friendship." The "ship" part of it could also be symbolic of that physical space in which those matters of the heart are discussed.

Then T and are heartmates maybe, sailing in a heartship together!

That's cool! You and kecanoe both came up with Sherpa. I do think that fits a T's role as a guide.

It could be viewed as a sort of mentorship.

"Mentorship" reminds me of Heinz Kohut's idea of the "alter ego" selfobject, which is something I think got derailed in my development, and which "I" was "trying" to connect with my last T about, but she was a "bad fit" she said -- after 6 years of previous therapy for trauma and dissociation.

So, yeah, I think that could be helpful for lots of people. I never found it -- or was too fragmented before the (somewhat successful) therapy for dissociation, and I don't want to go through the previous steps again with another T.

Just the notion of a kind of ". . .ship" is kind of cool, too.