I think if you discuss it extensively at first, including some of the concerns raised in the thread, it should be okay.

I don't want to be touched by a therapist. No. 1 often seemed to be playing a game to trick me into allowing her to touch me. It was like chess. She'd open the door in or out for me, and wait for me to go through so she could touch my back. I stopped that one day by gesturing her to go ahead of me and quipping, "Age before beauty."

And now I find myself keeping furniture between myself and No. 3, who once expressed an urge to hug and hold me.