I would think it useful to know what the therapist is doing and why. So if the therapist is being more distant one can know it is because they believe (They may be quite wrong about their reasoning but I would find it useful to know that they at least had some) it is to build up tolerance. The problem I find is that they tend to believe in not explaining what they are doing at the client so the client has an understanding of what is going on.
For me, the first woman kept trying to be too glommy at me. I knew what she was doing but I never did understand what she thought the point of it was and how it would help the thing I actually hired her for in the first place. Because she refused to explain and I couldn't see any reason for it, I kept her back. It seemed (so she said - but she was known to lie) to frustrate her a bit but that was on her - had she explained its usefulness I might have gone along with it.