My T won't give advice even if I ask her...and I ask her all the time. I've lived my life trying to figure out what other people want me to do or think I should do, so I know she does it for my own good...but I'd love to have her give me advice. She used to very kindly direct me to focus on what I thought instead of what she thought. We've worked together for a long time though, so now she usually comes out with a very funny and very sacrastic reply that makes me go "OK fine! I'll think about it!". And then I do, and we talk through it, and I'm really glad she makes me look inside myself for answers instead of finding them from her. She did tell me one time "As your therapist I would strongly discourage you from doing that" but I was talking about seeing a whole group of my past abusers and putting myself right in the center of it again. I knew it was a bad idea...I just needed someone to tell me it was okay to upset all of them and not go. That is the one and only time she's said anything.