As I have stated in here many times, I do have email contact with my therapist between sessions. I probably email 2-3 times per week. It is just part of my therapy. She encourages it. Not sure she does that with every client, but she sees that I am a writer and I communicate well in my emails.

We use it mainly to process and work on my homework assignments. I don't see it as getting free therapy. I see it is as "part" of my therapy. At one point, I did stop emailing and we had several sessions trying to determine why I had done that. She assured me that she was totally fine with it and strongly encouraged me to continue since it was working great for me (and her).

Again, she is in private practice and works part-time. I am sure that this is one reason she is so free and open with me to email her between sessions. Yes, she does respond in detail to my emails (as you have seen here when I posted them.)

Like I said, email part of mytherapy just as much as when I have a face-to-face session with her.