My T doesn't 'cry', but she has teared up on me twice, and both times were during very intense emotional connections. She is a tough woman, and once told me her co-workers have NEVER seen her cry, even after her mother passed away last year.
These two events at the moment seemed really strange, and the first time the emotional charge from the experience was already REALLY high, so for her to get teary-eyed and almost cry was on one hand really moving, and on the other was kind of unnerving. The image of her face with tears in her eyes was stuck in my head for the four days following that session until she called me to check in.
The second time T teared up on me wasn't as emotionally charged an experience as the first. She was telling me something about wanting me to develop deep and abiding attachments to other women so I had good support during the difficult transitions in life, saying that some of them are painful. That's when she teared up, and I think she was still pretty sensitive from the loss of her mother. It wasn't unsettling at all, as I know she was trying very hard to communicate and connect with me, and I felt that it showed her care for me as well.
Her voice also cracked once on the phone with me when she called to thank me for a card I had made for her and written a list of things about her that I admire/look up to. She was saying that it was beautiful and thanked me, and her voice cracked and she wrapped up the conversation pretty fast at that point.
Things like that make me feel that she is human and not impenetrable or immune to feeling emotion with patients.Good question!
MTF