Do you and T touch?

T1 who has very loose boundaries about out of session contact shakes hands at the beginning and end of each session. He hugged me once, when he was going to be out of the country (and out of touch) for a couple of weeks and I was struggling with that.

T2 never has touched me

T3 will put her foot up against mine or on mine to help me ground. I only needed that a few times when I was first seeing her.

I have never asked any of them for a hug or hand holding. I might like it with T1 but then there is that dependency thing.

We shake hands. I'm female my T is male.

As a bit of background, my first T refused to hug me after a painful disclosure and it was the beginning of the end of that relationship.
I never asked current T if he hugged because I found that rejection too painful the first time. After we had been working together for about a year, and during a conversation where I was talking about a desire to physically reach out to him. He said something along the lines of "I have thought carefully about touch in our relationship and I decided early on in our relationship that if you ever were to ask for touch, that would be fine." I was so surprised at the time, I couldn't believe he had offered it.
We talked about it a lot before it happened but we now hug every few sessions and very occasionally hold hands. We held hands last session as I was trembling after talking about historical abuse and we hugged at the end of the session. I find it so incredibly helpful. Especially the handholding when I was trembling.

She has told me " I feel like I want to give you a hug", I received it.. it was a little uncomfortable for me but I am so glad that she is willing to give an occasional hug. I desire it yet I'm not really comfortable with it. She wants me to engage in body work as well. This last week she asked me if I could lay on a mat, she would sit next to me, place her hand on my heart and I would have to look into her eyes.. so far I haven't been able to, again I would like to but it's scary.

I have been thinking about it for a long time. I feel like my T alluded that it would be okay to ask. I'm too scared of rejection though

I hate touch. Never wanted it. But throughout the years of therapy..I'm realizing the benefits and slowly learned to trust my therapist. There's Lots of hugs and hand holding. It's so healing!!!

Never!!!!! I want it but I don't think think I would like it, I would run for the hills. It doesn't make any sense but it's how I feel !

Firmly off limits with my T. Not always been, but this one is new, and i need to build trust first. Then it is only a hug goodbye at the most.

I think we shook hands once. That's probably it. I'm not interested in hugs or whatever. Honestly I'd find that sort of creepy.

If my T and I get within 24 inches of one another, a repellent force keeps us apart, like magnets of opposing polarities. Or the same polarity. I don't really understand how magnets work.

Occasionally he opens the door for me and I have to pass by him in close proximity. There's a great deal of wincing involved in that.

Not that I have a problem with touch or anything like that. Honestly. I'm a totally well-adjusted, healthy person.

No. I am not a touchy person and I prefer not to be touched.

T and I use touch regularly. I can't recall who instigated, but we came to an agreement quite early on in therapy. I have posted a lot about the sort of touch we use, I just hope when I go back he doesn't reset the boundaries.

This is a heavy subject for me. After my first t, I new I needed a therapist that touched. I was very honest up front and there have been some up and downs but I think I have found the one. We touch every session. She has touched my knee, rubbed my shoulders and back. She has put her arm around me. We have held hands. She has pulled me in and I have rested my head on her shoulder while she put her arms around me. She has put her head on mine. Hugs at the end of the session. Knowing what I know now, I would never see a therapist who wouldn't allow touch. "No touch" was a severe neglect I experienced.

never have or will

With my previous two long-term Ts, I gave them/got hugs at termination. One of them, I also got a hug before she went on maternity leave and maybe one other time, I think. With my current one, I'm too afraid to ask. I'm hoping if I see her longer, maybe she'll feel bad saying no, because I don't think I could take the rejection.

At yesterday's session, I updated my credit card, and when she handed it back to me, I was very aware that our fingers touched. Also, at our first session, she came and sat next to me to go over the paperwork or something and it made me so nervous.

I think touch is something I really want, but it also makes me super nervous.

We started hugging early on. I would NEVER ask for a hug. After a really hard session where we discussed trauma. As I got up to leave she asked if she could give me a hug. I accepted. For a while after that she would ask at the end of sessions but she always asked first as she knew I was not a huggy person. She knew I liked hugs with people who were safe but would never ask for on. After a while, she stopped asking and we just hug at the end of every session. The weird thing is she has never used any touch in a session.

Yes, hugs sometimes. During the first whole year I saw her in person, I never got the nerve up to ask for a hug until she was about to move away and then I was able to ask and she said yes. Since she moved back a little over a year ago and I see her in person again, we hug after a session sometimes. I got a big, warm hug last night after a really really good session and I didn't want to let go. She hugged me tighter than usual and longer than usual and I appreciated it so much. I'm just naturally a hugger, and I'm not sure where that came from because my family growing up were not!

Sadly, no. I'd love to put my head in his lap, or on his shoulder. But I know it's probably for the best that that never transpires.

Ex-T and I would hug after most sessions. She also sat next to us and allowed us to hold her hand. Some littles ones sometimes rested their head on her shoulder.

I wouldn't be comfortable touching new T, and I don't get the impression that she is a touchy-feely sort of person either. I don't think we have a need for touch in this round of therapy.

Sometimes we hug at the end of therapy. But I control whether I let her hug me or not.

Right now I'm not allowing it...because I feel pretty bad about myself.