patient counselor interaction

A little background first: About three years ago I sufferred a life changing injury. My life changed drastically for the worse. Roughly a year and a half ago, I found that I could no longer handle my circumstances alone. I sought professional counselling because of suicidal depression, emotion crippling anxiety, and severe alienation. The psychologist I am seeing is unlike any other person I've ever encounterred in my life-very patient, very honest, very 'real', very kind and very intelligent. She's an excellent conversationalist and seems to actually care...
Our last session slightly unsettled me. I confided to her about certain negative perceptions that, though I did not want to have them , I had about people around me- she asked me if I had this view of her, I answerred honestly that I did not; what impressed me about this brief exchange was that she seemed very uncustomarilly dire and authentically concerned about the inquiry. Later in the session as we discussed certain issues, she seemed to be on the verge of tears, that is, I could actually see tears welling up in her eyes as I spoke about about certain speciffic details concerning my unbearable physical and emotional hell.
I don't know how to take this. Is this some sort of wrote technique counselors use to make patients feel human or relevant? Or Could this person actually have this kind of real compassion for a wretched stranger such as I? Or because my psyche is dying of loneliness and is desperate, could I have imagined or halucinated this alleged instance of emotional intimacy? I don't know that I have the fortitude to ask her out right about this. I believe that our sessions have been a great boon to me as far as assisting me not to die at my own hands and in gracing me with alternative perspectives on myself and my issues.
The last question I have is this: I don't want to have any sort of attachment to this Doctor, but I find myself looking forward to our sessions and I find a growing feeling of friendship and fondness for her in me. Is this bad? Should I continue with the sessions? I don't want to face the possibility that this is some sort of emotional prostitution.(I pay the Doctor to pretend to care about me and to be my friend.) And conversely, I can't face the possibility that this person has an actual concern and compassion for me- this just does not compute. What advice or observation can you offer me on all this?

DXY

One chooses to become a psychotherapist since one finds people interesting and like seeing them become better and recover. It is not strange for a therapist to care for his/her patients and liking them. It is also the wamest caring therapists who get the best results. The therapist must however of course be professional and keep within the necessary boundaries set up. Keep seeing your therapist and try and take as much advantage from her competence as possible. If a therapist and his/her patient becomes friends, this should occur after the therapy had ended.