Hi and welcome!
I can relate to this. It is so frustrating. Can you talk about "talking" and your desire to be able to talk freely and your frustration about not being able to yet? I found that to be helpful to do, and have had many sessions where this has come up. Can you tell her the things you mention in your post such as this:
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I trust her, but I really want to be able to actually talk to her rather than emailing/texting her. I wish I knew a way to do this. ..I wish I would feel comfortable enough to talk; I don't know why I feel uncomfortable. She's nice and non-judgemental and gentle with me and she's trying to help me.
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I wonder if you could take a copy of your email(s) with you and read it to her? It might help open things up.
I trust it will get better for you. It did for me when I decided that I was going to talk about "anything" even if it was that I baked Christmas cookies. And I did just that, talked about anything (since therapy is about "anything and everything"
) and it did help me get to feel more comfortable. It can feel so exposing in there!