My therapy office allows phone calls and emergency appointments between sessions. No therapy agency I have been too in the past 23 years has ever allowed Email.

The reason is because Email is just like sending a post card through the mail. Nice pictures and concept but open to the public to read.

For example even if the therapist is the only one in the agency that is reading your email the email company - yahoo, hot mail and so on can see it at any point because you have to register with them and they keep your password on file (thats how they know when you have lost your password and so on) and have people monitoring the accounts and so on. Any number of people who we don't know can be reading the emails at any given time because we don't know how many monitors each email agency has - could be one or like yahoo has branches around the world.

So here in this state where I am it is against mental health laws and rules of ethics to send emails back and forth between client and therapist based on breach of confidenciality.