I've never regretted hugging my T. I think it's helped us bond, and like someone else said, it helps me know we are still ok at the end of sessions. For me it helped make therapy feel more personal and less like a business relationship. In some ways that's good, from a relationship standpoint it's good, but in another way it's caused me a bit of pain. Because we hug I think I've had my hopes up at times that there was something more between us, not necessarily sexual even, but just like a friendship or a familial relationship that at other times I realize isn't really there... so in a way it has made me mourn what I don't have with my T.