The best ever therapists are those who have empathy and show this to their clients.

All therapists are told that you must not "identify" with your client but all this does is attract the people who cannot or will not empathize with anyone at all.

A highly empathic person cannot be a therapist as 1/ They cannot stand back and be objective 2/ Their colleagues will not let them be emphatic as it is unprofessional.

A psychiatrist in the UK was struck off the medical register for giving her patients hugs of sympathy and kindness, her patients all said that these gestures of tenderness were worth all the drugs they were prescribed but the General Medical Council did not like this sort of treatment.
Twats.