I had one free "session" but it wasn't truly a therapy session. My first T also does group training classes and I wanted to attend some of them and he let me. I was going to pay the normal fee for the classes. But I was the only person showing up one day, so we just turned it into a conversation more or less, talking also a lot about why the other people might not have shown up... it had little to do with the training, so I just wrote him a check for a personal session given that he sat there talking with me for more than an hour. When I left, he shortly sent me an email that he felt it was not fair to charge me for that meeting and never cashed the check. I actually agreed on that one.

Not actual sessions, but my second T emailed with me quite a lot for >a year after I stopped formally seeing him in sessions, completely free of charge. It wasn't anything like a friendship, more just updates, and I was always very ambivalent about it, told him this many times, but I still sent emails and he often responded. I am still not really sure about his motive, maybe he found it interesting or perhaps expected that I would return to paid sessions someday. There was nothing different in the emails compared with those that we exchanged while still his formal client except that they were much less infrequent and less diverse in content. Last time we emailed just a few weeks ago but I now feel even less comfortable and think that I will stop contacting him as I do not feel it is appropriate this long; I also no longer feel it has any benefit, just the same kinds of emails.