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Originally Posted by emwell2
Your responses about emailing a therapist has blown me away a bit. Email? You have your therapists email? I have been seeing this written a lot lately. Maybe it is my age, but I just never thought to ask for an email. well now that I think about it I did communicate with a Pdoc via email a few times. She also had 2 phones 1 for emergencies and 1 for med and appointment stuff. I have recently been thinking about asking my therapist for an email so I can send her a link. I'm not too sure of how I would feel if I had it.
I have had phone relationships with both docs and therapists in the past. I would call in an emergency or in case of medication, medication questions that came up. They all had their own private practices. They had access to my messages at any time. Their call back times varied depending on the message left.
Presently my Med doctor and therapist are with a local community health center. The doctor can be contacted outside of appointment time. This is a text via the community health centers nurse.
I would only attempt to call my therapist during business hours. She recently called my house from her personal phone, but she never technically gave me her number. I am still debating whether to delete the # form caller ID. I actually believe that because she is not in private practice that off hours calls should not be expected as part of my treatment.
My treatment doctor has made it perfectly clear through his behavior that he is only available during scheduled times. He's actually recently been terminated.
I don't know if I am different or if the rules are different. I think of the relationship I have as more business like than before.
I will add that sometimes I call my therapist just to leave a happy positive message. I've spent so many years calling others in desperate emergency situations that I figure I can make up for it by leaving this one a good message now and again.
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Just wanted to say that my T's (individual T and marriage counselor) have their e-mails listed on their business cards, so it wasn't a matter of asking. (Business e-mails, not like personal e-mails.)
And in terms of calling, I just leave voicemails on their office phone. I think some clients have their cell numbers, but I feel weird asking for them. (Actually, I may technically have my individual T's, since she called me from there, but I'd feel weird calling it back.)