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Originally Posted by Bipolarchic14
I see all these posts about peoples therapists not responding to emails , texts and phone calls.. What do you Guys write about? I don't even have my therapists email and I don't have the ability to text her. I have only called once. Being so dependent on your therapist cannot be healthy...unless there is a therapy that specifically requires this.
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Sure it can be healthy. Depending on a helping professional for help can be a very healing experience, as it has been for me. We don't all fit into the 50 minutes once a week mold, and many therapists are open to some between-session contact.
There are many types of therapy where more frequent contact is seen as useful, like DBT, or many issues where more frequent contact can be extra-helpful, such as doing intensive trauma work. Traditional psychoanalysis was set up to occur at least three times per week for example.
In my therapy, I pay for email sessions as well as live ones and have seen tremendous improvement in problem behaviors I had as well as doing trauma work and in many other ways too.