I honestly don't know whether that's typical, but it's the way my T chooses to do it. It doesn't bother me to be honest. My T is a'supervisor of supervisors' (he has a book about supervision too, lol) so I guess he has the experience and knowhow to be unconventional.
I agree with you (and everyone else) guilloche, it's better to have a T that seeks consultation to be a good T than pay for therapy that's going off course.