First, I'm so pleased and impressed by your speaking up about your needs! It must have felt amazing, after this risk, to have someone agree to meet them

One of the Ts that I saw told me that it's common practice for the therapist to wait until the client asks for a hug before hugging him/her. I know that sometimes Ts offer hugs first (as was the case for me in one of my last four relationships when I absolutely broke down based on something she said to me), but perhaps waiting for the client to ask is what's typically taught in T school? This was my experience with the other three Ts I've seen--I had to ask for a hug/initiate a hug, but then after this it became common practice. A couple of them asked me what the hug meant to me and with my current T we talked about this at length.