The problem with him trying to divert you away from talking about your sexual feelings, is that it might give you the message that your feelings are too much or not ok, which is the opposite of what you need to hear.

Also, using the term 'wrong path', suggests that having sexual or loving feelings towards him are/were bad or wrong, which again is not helpful. I wonder if he felt uneasy because of his own feelings?

I'm glad things are getting better. A paper I read years ago compared the relationship between male therapist and female patient to that of father and adolescent daughter, which I can relate to.