For trauma therapy work, I believe email can be a life saver for both the T and the client. Flashbacks tend to happen a lot at night. When doing trauma healing work, they can happen many times a night even. And they are so painful that it can take a person into a very bad place in a very short time. A T who is doing that type of work has to be there in those black nights of the soul or they may have even bigger problems on their hand or be forced into hospitalization of a client. In my case, I told T I would NOT do that - it would be over with at that point for me, even if I had to wait until they released me. So he knew how deep my pain was and what he needed to do to help me out.

I would write him sometimes 5 emails from 11PM - 3 AM while the flashbacks were happening. It allowed him to BE WITH me in those hours, even while he was asleep. I would not have made it without that option.

For now though, I try to limit the emails because they are not needed the way they were for that part of my healing. So maybe a T can set limits and say "While we are doing THIS type of healing work, you can use email to help you make it ... so you will know you are not alone when these flashbacks happen. But when we are done with that work, we will not use email. How do you feel about that option?"