I got an online therapist when my therapist went away for several months and when she came back she said it would be better if I only had one so I stopped corresponding with my online one. I see the point; it's hard to "split" one's attention that way and I too believe that everything is connected to everything else so working on one thing helps with others and vice versa so there's bound to be conflict of some sort if you get two "systems" going at once working on different problems, etc., just the effort to keep them straight and out of each other's hair, etc. takes away from efforts to work on one's problems directly. The less "organization" one needs with therapy, the better I've found it to be for me; that's why I'm glad the therapist is in charge of framing/"containment" and transference/countertransference, etc. My therapist set up a day and time we both agreed on and she was extremely good at not being late or missing any sessions, just as I was for my part. I didn't have to think about any "outside" factors in my therapy, could just concentrate on what I was working on.