E- therapy and LL no way. LOL see here therapists don't give out their personal email or even a work email. The reason they don't is because Email in not covered by confidentiality rule. sending an email is like sending a post card through the US mail - nice picture but open to all to see. The therapist is not the only one that sees the emails that get sent back and forth. The email company - yahoo, hot mail gmail and so on, you have to register with them including a password that they keep on file with your account so at any point those hundreds to thousands of people who work for those companies have access to the password and can at any moment open the email accounts to varify that the person is upholding the email companies rules and so on or to just read for any reason that they want to.

That email also has to go through a network of "lines and towers" to get from the person to the therapist and the therapist to the person kind of like cell phone access goes through towers and phone companies have phone lines and cable companies have their lines that email has to travel whatever internet access route you have, and those companies that the computer is registered through and the people that work there have access to the computers by way of your account with them so at any point if they wish any number of people can access your computer with your account information and then access your email accounts, its especially easy to do with those computers that the owners click on the "remember me" icon on their emails, security settings and websites that they visit. The company doesn't need to know your passwords all they need to do is access your computer (they have the computers IP number for that automatically shows up each and every time you visit a website including email accounts,and then using your computer access go into those email accounts. Hackers do this all the times, as do the police when they are notified by email companies of questionable matieral being sent through their service. Its in part how the police are able to infiltrate pediphiles and other on line preditors.

Another way I look at emails is that it ss like this website - people can find this website and read it without being a registered member.

Poeple don't necessarily need to be a member of my email buddy lists. any number of people can intercept my email and read it (not to mention the fact that they can "right click and copy" and then send it on to who ever where ever the reader wants.)

Emails and passwords give people a false security that if I send an email that no one will know what I am saying to my therapist. But in actuality when emailing there is no way to know who and how many are reading those emails.

Which is why on line communication is not covered by any real time USA medical and or mental health confidentiality laws and rules.

My therapist LL also has other professional reasons why she does not giving out her personal email. She has a caseload of 60-65 clients that she sees. Some are weekly, some are every two weeks and some are as needed. If she gave out her personal email she would not have a personal life outside of her practicing therapy. she will have no down time and then not only is she not good for her clients but she is not any good for taking care of herself because she will be in burnout.

For those who don't know what therapist burnout is, its severe depression and anxiety. When it happens while and because of work its called - burnout.

Another reason alot of therapists don't do email therapy with their clients is because medical insurance does not pay for on line therapy. it pays for face to face sessions. And a therapist usually charges for any amount of time that they take with a client - face to face, and also time spent on things that the therapist must do for and about the client outside of therapy sessions. For example when my therapist attends any court appointed hearing with, for or about me she has to charge my medical insurance under the agencys code used for Advocacy.

If my therapist charged my medical company under advocacy every time she would be reading an email from me there would be no money for face to face sessions because we would be using up all my allotted funds that my medical card allows for therapy sessions.

Me do E therapy with LL -

even if this state allowed it I would not do it. I like the fact that what I want to say goes directly from my mouth or hand in the case of my letters and journal entries, to LL ears or hand and what I do say and do with LL is seen and heard only by LL. and I have a choice to tell my friends myself face to face when I want them to know what I am doing in therapy.

that in itself makes LL's and my time together special and unlike any other relationship that I have.