Yes, I've had this happen with my marriage counselor and ex-T. With MC, I've sent him some e-mails being very open about things, mostly transference stuff for him. He's generally very good in his responses--brief but caring. But there were a couple where it sounded, as I put it to him in my response, "like you're being a generic therapist responding to a generic client instead of you, MC, responding to me, LT." As if he'd looked in a therapist book of "How to respond when a client says x" and used that response. Ex-T tended to be very brief and not say much in her responses, so I didn't generally expect a good response from her. But MC tended to set the bar high for himself, so when he sent a very professional instead of personal/caring response, it was more difficult.