I spend one session a week on EMDR and the next session talking. I usually go into each talking session with a written agenda. I won't allow myself to email my therapist in between sessions but I do work on journaling daily as he suggests. The night before my session I will go through my journal and pick out the top most important things and write them on my agenda list so when I go in I talk about what's on that list. It helps me to not get distracted and make sure that I get out everything I want to get out. That usually helps me feel pretty resolved at the end of the session. I feel like I accomplished what I went in there for. That doesn't mean that I dont have immediate questions and things to add to the list for the next week session but again I find as time goes on some of those things resolve themselves if I just allow it to. That's part of the healing process.

No offense to anybody that emails in between sessions. Everybody's different and has to do what they have to do but I think sometimes it just makes more problems. You email something that's in your head at that moment then your therapist has all of these things to go over at the next session that maybe are no longer even important to you by that time. Then you sit and worry and try to read their mind how are they taking your email should I email them again what are they doing with that email. It just causes more stress. Sometimes if we just sit with our feelings they resolve themselves if it's still important by the next session by all means bring it up but sometimes that thing is no longer important and just becomes a waste of time and energy. My therapist is constantly trying to get me to just be able to sit with my bad feelings. When things come up in session he will make me do that in front of them if I sit there for about 5 minutes and practice mindful breathing and feeling the emotion for the thought it does get better and the bad feelings do go away. I just have to have patience and allow myself to feel it. Good luck to you.