I'm glad that you can contact her when you need to. She sounds great.

My former pdoc/therapist used to allow that for years but I became dependent on the outside contact and texting. So when he no longer allowed it, it was painful and caused problems with my therapy.

I think the key is probably balance. She sounds like a very caring and compassionate T who cares about your well-being so she feels this is the right thing for you.

Having outside contact is very helpful.

I think what caused problems in my situation is that I lost the focus of how it helped when I needed it and got too comfortable with it and began to overdo it.