Well, my t initiated the email by recommeding it after i was struggling to determine what topic we should talk about in session. She suggested I email her if I felt like it in between session (which then was 2 weeks) and she would pick up my "clues" and decide for me what we were to talk about since I hated that choice.

She was very cautious to tell me that this will in no way "replace" our therapy and should not deter me from seeing her in person, which I think she feared at first. She also said that whatever i said in email was gonna be brought up in session......

I went to town with this. I process a day or two after therapy so I get the happiness or the high or the upsetedness afterward and found email to be a great tool in explaining where my head is at away from therapy. I am a good verbal expressor but also articulate in writing so I took to this.

She likens it to having hours of therapy away from her, which for me is good because I'm thinking and compartmentalizing and getting the thoughts out of my head. She then feels like she understands me better.

Not sure if I like it as much as before. I am not concerned with the privacy as nobody who'd read it on her end would know me anyway. On my end, no security issues. She prints them all off, deletes the masil and puts the copy in my file. I see she has written notes on them sometimes.

She doesn't correspond to me unless it's something like, read this book, or are we still on for tuesday or something like that. She has sent a hang in there, and an "I'm not going anywhere" which I reread and I like.

I send freaking novels now and I bet she wishes she never recommended it, lol, really they can get to 3 or 4 pages......too much to ever bring up in one session. I told her I was sorry they were so long but she said, if she wished to not receive them she would tell me. She also likes very much how expressive I can be with my writing and my emotions.