Thread: Hugging - again
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Old Feb 13, 2012, 12:11 PM
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My T and I hug often at the end of a session. We didn't do this for the first 6 months or though. Then he did invite me to share a hug with him. We didn't discuss it. Just an invitation/question and I answered yes.

Kitten, what I didn't like about what your T did was that he said "you can't tell you whole life story to me and not get a hug." Even though it's probably just a turn of speech, it sounds like you had no choice in the matter. He was telling you that you can't not hug him. I think this sends the wrong message. The client doesn't have to do anything in therapy. The choice is all up to the client. For the T to tell the client she has no choice but to get a hug from him sounds awful.
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