Yearning, the comparison to a professor isn't a fair one because there is no legal obligation of care between professor and student the way there is between T and client. And your class may have 18 students, but what is her total student load across classes? I carry a load of 350-400 students, and if I had even 6 students e-mailing me as much as you say you do, that would add hours of work to my day. Just having students e-mail and neglect to put their name or topic in the header, causes 10-30 minutes of extra time that I usually don't have in my workday.

Leah, forgive me, but you have a thread agonizing about being way over your therapy budget because of unlimited contact with your T. It appears that neither of you exercise the kind of control necessary to avoid creating this problem. I don't see that as benign.