Monte I thought your post was really informative and helpful with how to work through fears of accepting care and some of that care can involve appropriate, therapeutic touch.

I don't think that there is anyone who gets everything they want from their Ts. I have some touch, a handshake, an arm pat, but no hugs. Others may not get touch but get longer sessions. Others may not get touch but have outside contact while others do not. Some may be able to go for walks with T while others insist on therapy within the office walls. Some may have multiple sessions a week or regular appointments while other have more spaced out appointments that move around from day to day and time to time.

The mention of touch was not the value of your post. That was in the explanation of the process of working through things that are difficult, such as accepting care from T. That is something many of us struggle with. It's valuable for how a long term T relationship can evolve when both parties are committed and invested in the success of the relationship and the healing for the patient.

Thanks for writing about it. Oh and not hijacky at all. It was helpful to me.

PF.... thank you for your session update. I love reading about how people interact with their T's in session. Hearing your POV makes me feel less alone when I'm having the same struggles and hearing your T's POV teaches me things.

I struggle with accepting care as well and was thinking about posting about the same topic. Thanks for introducing it.

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