Outstanding therapists, or therapists who are 'the best' do not initiate touch with clients without having a clear and mutually understood plan, bring up family members during therapy, or treat clients as their children (or in any fashion similar to that).

We see this over and over and over again on this forum. Therapist has loose boundaries and invites client into emotionally open relationship, client feels special and almost like part of therapist's family. This is the honeymoon phase and you could not tell someone that their therapist is being wildly inappropriate if you tried.

Then, at some point, therapist comes to their senses (or, more likely, has their ego sated by client's adoration) and abruptly changes the boundaries, often without bothering to mention it.

Client becomes confused. Still loves therapist, but feels pain of rejection. Usually defends therapist against criticism, because to accept that the therapist has been hugely inappropriate is to accept that what the client so loved is forever lost and never should have been.

End result? Client flailing in pain for months or years. Distress rises as client realizes that they have been pushed out of their therapist's affections. Oftentimes the client is eventually teminated after pushing the issue.

Therapists are human and have feelings. But what you pay for in therapy is for the therapist to focus on you, maintain healthy boundaries and not bring their family members into the equation.

This is why good therapists limit physical affection to hugs at the most, or handshakes. Because cuddling with a person creates emotional connections which cannot just be severed because the therapist decides to sever them. This is almost always hugely painful for clients in this situation, and a major part of the pain is the fact that the client can't bring themselves to believe just how badly they've actually been treated.