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Originally Posted by lolagrace
Hope, you really are going to have to find a way to stop emailing and just discuss these apprehensions IN SESSION where you can have a conversation face to face. You keep emailing as a way to test how much this therapist cares, but it really is a false equivalency. This therapist has professional boundaries and is working with you in the bounds of your sessions -- that is normal and ethical. Slow down and allow this new therapy relationship to develop. You are demanding much more than is really normal from a therapist, particularly in the early stages, and it leads you nowhere but into anxiety.
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This is a good point, too--I didn't start e-mailing with my T or marriage counselor (aside from an occasional scheduling thing) until I'd been seeing each of them over a year--more like 2 years for T, and I discussed it with her first. I'm not sure how they would have reacted if I kept e-mailing them a bunch right when I first started seeing them.
It's also really easy to have misunderstandings over e-mail/text--whether with a T or friend or family member. So your T probably wants to only discuss things in person, at least until you get to know each other better.
Do you know yet if you do have another appointment?