It depends. All therapists I have had have hugged me which I have felt I needed. Not all of them have accepted gifts. The area where it depends for me is sharing. Most of my therapists I have had had pretty rigid boundaries about sharing. I kind of wish they would have shared more but when they do I end up feeling envious like my therapist talks about all her friends and stuff and that is hard for me because I don't have too many and it is hard for me to make friends. Also one would talk about her daughters and that would bother me because I always thought she was probably a great mom and I didn't always feel like I had that. One talked about her relationship with her father which again upset me because my father was not a good father. While I wish they would share more I know it ends up bothering me when they do.