Hey all~
I enjoy reading about the differences each t has when I read your posts etc. I'm really fascinated by different styles and approaches that they take with us, how they interact...

I know that each one of us requires a different set of criteria with response to treatment and so forth. How our T reacts to us could be very different than how they interact with their previous client or next client for example, due to our different circumstances and reasons for therapy, and of course, their therapeutic orientations and our "diagnoses".

I often analyze (and over-analyze) how/why my t does (or doesn't do) what she does with me.

For example, my t has never ever touched me, not a hug, not a handshake, nothing. I've been going for a year and a half and she's a psyd (Cognitive, systemic, ecelectic). She's given me reciepts or slips to sign, change due, hand lotion (a squirt from a bottle) even a music CD, all without touching me. She sits across from me and says I'm her only client that uses the chair, not the couch. She never moves closer.

I am not sexually attracted to her but have wished (in my mind) that she had hugged me or comforted me by touch on the hand or a pat or something after a few particularly difficult sessions. One she even got a bit teary during and I feel so far away......maybe this isn't her style as I haven't seen her in other session obviously, but I am left to wonder why she's never reached out to me. Is this common or uncommon? Maybe I'm in a transference moment.

I guess my point that I'm getting at here is: what does your t do (or not do) that you wish to change? Do they ever hug you? Are they kind or stern? Do they cry during sessions? Sleep? Anyone care to share the things they most like or dislike about their t?