Am I the only one to think that having out-of-session contact with a therapist or psychiatrist is unprofessional?

Here I go playing the Devil's Advocate again. But, ask yourself, what seems to be in common with so much strife we are reading about difficult and tenuous patient/doctor relationships. I see a real correlation in many of these posts that one can pinpoint out-of-office communications as being a cause or aggrivation of relationship difficulties. I have read a lot about issues that seem to be grounded a great deal in misunderstandings that happen while texting, directly calling, or emailing back and forth with one's care provider.

I am not suggesting this is a one way only issue. Misunderstandings and the putting up of walls apparently as I see here seem to be equally the cause of the doctors as they are patients.

Having contact with one's professional just seems to me to be too big a window of opportunity for disaster.

Would it not be better to maintain contact by way of the office?