What is your experience with being able to contact your therapist outside of sessions?

This new therapist I'm seeing gave me a convoluted answer last week when I asked her about contact outside of sessions. She said to call her direct number - to her office (where I would leave a voice mail if she didn't answer). She said, "However, I do groups in the morning and will be seeing individuals in the afternoons." On the weekends, I am to use a specific emergency number to the hospital unit. I asked her about email and she said she doesn't check her email. So, couldn't she have just been direct and said no contact outside of sessions? I just kind of stared at her and she didn't offer any other suggestions. So I didn't push it. I have no idea about weekday evenings. She's probably gone by 5.

Should they be available to us? I guess this varies by therapist.

I really wish she was available, but I wonder if she's afraid of me contacting her too much. I recently pushed for 2 sessions a week and that seemed to take several conversations with several people before getting a direct answer on that.

I saw one counselor there at this place and am no longer seeing her - she seemed squirrelly. I left her a voice mail one time to tell her that she needed clear strong boundaries to be able to handle me and that if she didn't, I didn't need to be her client. She had tried to "save" me in a Christian sort of way and I didn't like it at all. Needless to say, she sent me to this counselor I'm seeing now.

I just worry about getting good treatment and trusting that people know what they're doing. I also really want to be able to contact her outside of sessions.