I was told by my ex therapist that many therapist will not offer unregulated outside contact because they are afraid of getting sued, so they maintain the strict teachings of what they were taught; do not bend the frame. It is true that therapist have been sued for providing nonstandard forms of care; emails, walks outside the office, sharing a meal inside or outside the office, etc, which leaves many therapist to protect their livelihood in whatever way they think is necessary — to hell with what the client thinks they need. More importantly, I think there are a fair amount of therapist wanting to give more, yet they hold back in fear. At least from reading here on PC, many therapist themselves go into the profession because of unmet needs from childhood like many of us, so how could they not know the anguish we go through? Or has their training delivered them into deep denial of what the pain was like and what it is to be human?