While I don't have any kind of contact with my T between sessions, I don't see that there's anything bad or shameful about it. Suppose you were in constant physical pain, of a kind that could be alleviated by pain medication. There would be nothing bad about contacting your GP as often as you had to in order to get more pain meds, even while you were working on physiotherapy or whatever else you needed in order to be able to manage without it. We're afraid of being dependent on other people (at least I am) which is perhaps what leads to the perception of it being somehow negative in itself to reach out when necessary.

I'm sure it's perfectly possible to go overboard with the contacting and just trust the T to cope for us rather than help us cope, but I doubt that anybody who is sufficiently interested in their own recovery to seek out these boards would do that.