He doesn't have a receptionist.

And before my first appointment with him, I asked him if he would be okay with emails and texts between sessions and he said that it would be fine. So I haven't contacted him while he was on leave except to try to find out when he would be back.

I'm definitely being careful not to hit any boundaries.

This month is the anniversary of the deaths of my mom and grandfather and this is always a hard time of year for me.

Plus my sister has been constantly giving me a hard time to the point where I had to call my psychiatrist's to see if my pdoc could talk to me for a few minutes but he was out that week so I explained it all to the secretary and she was understanding.