Great post!
My voice movement therapy t would hold me in her lap when I cried. As a movement therapist, she can do this, it's kind of an expressive arts therapy thing. We also wrote songs for each other, and she brought chocolate and fruit for our last session. She gave me a ring that was hers as a present too!
The t before her was extremely unconventional, but this was more on the lines of unethical as in harmful. She had me as her apprentice in a training program and a client at the same time, I went to parties and on a retreat where she shared way too much about her life including crying. So yeah, not good for me.
I do miss getting held by VMT though, a lot!