[AmericanChopper]

They don’t attempt to measure it because it not something that’s even properly defined with any rigour. Any person who seriously uses the phrase is going to have their own completely individual idea of what it means, and there’s no reason the think any therapist would have this nebulous quality, or even that their idea of what it means has any similarity to your idea of what it means.

[pdabbadabba]

I suppose I agree — "emotional intelligence" is probably not the word I would have used, writing on a blank slate. I think the idea is better captured in the concept of rapport, which is really just a function of clients' subjective experience working with a given therapist. A therapist can learn techniques to increase the chances of establishing a good rapport with a given client, but I'd be inclined to leave it at that.