My therapist maintains boundaries however she is also open to a variety of approaches depending on what I may need at a given time. I can call her, write to her, share my art journal with her, sit next to her in a session if I need to, schedule extra sessions, she has written letters for me to have in her absense, she even recorded a story she read for me to listen to in case I needed to hear her voice. I think the hardest part to deal with for me is that she is getting older and is retiring from the hospital she is working at, however she assures me that she will continue her private practice and has no plans of retiring from that anytime soon. I still think about her age and something happening to her. I cannot imagine not knowing her. she has told me that she realizes that I will probably always need some kind of contact with her and she says that is ok.