Does your T initiate touch?

She have never initiated touch.
I hug her about once a year, but it's always me who starts it.

I used to get upset that she offered so little comfort when I was crying.
The most she ever offers me then is a box of tissues.

no touch for me and t seems okay with it.

one time his fingers accidentally touch mine when i was paying him, about had a freak attack. do not like it at all.

he stays on his side of the room, i stay on mine.

When I first started seeing the therapist, I carried a handkerchief around in case, by some strange fluke, crying occurred- just to keep the therapist from offering me a tissue. Since crying has not really come up, I sometimes forget to bring it now.

Thanks!

I've learned to feel T's support without being touched.

My exT hugged me three times without asking. Once when we had been having an argument and she stopped me at the door and held her arms out to me. She explained at the next session that she wanted me to know that her core feelings for me had not changed despite our disagreement.
The next time I thought it was going to be my last session so she held out her arms at the door again.
Both of these times I wrapped both arms around her and actually applied pressure. It was the sort of thing where I didn't want to let go. But I don't think I held on all that long, really.
The third time was my for real last session and it was just a loose one-armed thing because we were in the waiting room.
I craved more but never asked.
Other than that, just casual stuff. A handshake at the first session. She put her hand on my shoulder when I was still learning where her office was and started turning the wrong way. She touched my hair to see how thick it was. Stuff like that.
Current T I've only been seeing for like a month (switched therapy types). Pretty sure we shook hands. Weirdly that didn't stick with me. Not so attached to current T.

T touched me for the first time today...to get me to leave her office. She put her soft hand in mine and tried to get me off the couch. Then she put her arm under my arm to try to pull me up. I love her. Wanted to hug her.

My therapist doesn't initiate touch and neither do I. Maybe one day...

The first time I almost cried (and I never cry in front of anyone) my therapist threw the box of tissues at me. The box did land the right way up at my feet. There was no way I was going to take a tissue, but I really liked the fact that she threw them. I'm pathetically softhearted these days, but there's no way I want someone to go "here take a tissue". As if it's not bad enough that I'm actually crying!

I've been seeing my T for about 8 months and there's no touch. We don't shake hands or anything. There have been times I could have done with a hug or for her to sit next to me and put an arm round me to comfort me but it doesn't happen. I'm too scared to ask in case she says no, the rejection would be difficult and I would feel bad for asking.

No. With the exception of the initial handshake when we met at my first appointment there has never been any touch. It frustrates me no end, because I am a big hugger and want so much to ask her for a hug but I can't bring myself to do it. It's never been discussed. Come to think of it we've never had a conversation about boundaries of any type. I think I impose them on myself lol.

My T does not touch me. The only time we've touched was to shake hands the first time we met.

Until yesterday, I would have said that I was very happy not to have touch from him. But when I left my session yesterday, all I really wanted from him was a hug. I won't see him for 3 weeks and I wanted that extra connection. But I didn't ask.

Yes. A hug at the end of each session.

physical contact for me is like pushing the on-off button on a robot. T put his foot on my chair the other day and I held onto it like I was drowning. okay not quite, but it helped me stay fully present and not just go into my head. I AM grateful that he senses these opportunities and takes them. we have been talking about depersonalization recently, so I understood what he was doing.

Early on with my T there was no touching really, except a few times, he tapped my foot with his when I was dissociating. Sort of like hankster's T helping her. I asked him sit next to me once, and then ended up completely squished up against his side, when I was telling him about the CSA for the first time. Maybe a month after that, I had a lot of trouble after a session -- shaking for hours, really unsettled -- and the next session I told him about it, he asked me what he could do to help me so that didn't happen again. I asked him if he could touch me - and then panicked a little thinking he would take that in a creepy way. But, he didn't; he just asked if he could hug me. We have hugged fairly regularly since that time. Sometimes he initiates the hugs and sometimes I do.

I've never discussed a touch boundary with t but it's never really been an issue.
I think she shook my hand at the first appointment but that's it.

I would definitely want to be asked first and I doubt I would ever initiate touch. I think touch would blurr some important boundaries for me.