Hello,

I have a guess about the length thing here on the board. There are a lot of Ts in the US who do time limited therapy, especially if they are working in a CBT model for specific disorders (especially anxiety disorders.) My guess is that a lot of the individuals who are in the short term model (6-24 sessions) in the US do not make it to the psychotherapy forum because it is of a time limited duration.So they don't have the extended time that many of us have in our therapies and don't reflect as much on the interpersonal interactions and connections between them and their therapist because they know that it is a time limited course of treatment.

As for disclosure and hugging, I really think it depends on the T here in the US. I have never had a T that would hug or anything like that. I've known very little about my Ts. So I think there is a very broad range of amount of disclosure by Ts. There are ethical rules that Ts are supposed to follow when working. Deviation from those rules is (supposed to) only happen when seriously considered by the T, and if something does go wrong in the deviation from the rules, the T does risk losing their license. This is why many Ts will not bend the rules about physical contact, self disclosure, etc even when clients very much wish they would. There are a number of threads on the board about clients wishing to know more about their Ts or receive hugs. So it is not that every T in US is the same and provides the same types of support to their clients.