I can call my T and he will get back to me that day. We don't email or text. I like the fact that I have to pick up the phone and make a call. It gives me the opportunity to think about actually trying to handle whatever is going on using the healthy skills I have first.

While most clients can probably handle email/texting without it becoming obsessive or impulsive, it seems for some clients texting or emailing availability can lead to rather impulsive contact because there is little opportunity to delay gratification; it's too quick. Many clients have no problem with appropriately using these means of communication on their own, but we've seen cases right here on PC of therapists who had to change their rules concerning emails and texts with certain clients because it became too easy, too frequent for them, or there were constant misunderstandings because the written texts/emails were misinterpreted/overinterpreted.

Personally, I think wise therapists will wait until they know a client better before deciding to introduce that kind of immediate contact availability. Backtracking/redrawing boundary lines after the fact, as we've seen over and over again on everything from emailing to touch, creates all sorts of heartache.