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Abstract
As the therapist and client age together during the course of psychotherapy, an array of new opportunities arise for deep psychological work. Long-term relational, intersubjective, and feminist therapy throughout the adult life cycle facilitates and encourages exploration of the scope and intensity of human experience: attachments and fear of abandonment, grief and loss, illness and disability, spiritual connection or its absence, and the aging process itself in all its dimensions. The author explores with six of her clients their impressions of self, of the therapist, and of the therapy relationship. Case material illustrates their experiences with one another as therapist and client in therapies that have continued from 18 to 28 years. The mutual trust and the clients' feelings of safety and containment in the context of the therapy relationship are reflected in their words. The author expresses deep gratitude for this precious trust.