My T recently stopped email responses. I’ve posted about this multiple times, but in brief, he responded for about a year, then abruptly stopped them, saying that he felt he was supporting something unhealthy by replying to my emails. He will still read my emails, but will no longer reply. I’m relieved that he’ll still read them (and it’s clear to me that he reads them in detail) because I can process things better and express myself more clearly via email. Not having that would make me feel disabled in a way. I believe his motives were good, but I’m still not sure I agree that the best solution was to stop responding to all emails. That feels very black & white to me. When we discussed this last week he compared emails to hugs which I think is interesting because I’ve never wanted to ask for a hug, but realize that can be a big deal for some people based on what I’ve read on this forum. His point was that both hugs and email responses from T don’t offer a real solution to the problem. They give temporary, but not long term relief. He’s psychodynamic, so maybe it has more to do with that school of thought. I still feel a loss at not having a response to ANY emails (except scheduling emails) so I’m just trying to figure out how to process this. I imagine it would feel the same as being told that T won’t give you a hug if you want one. There must be some kinds of emails that would be ok for him to respond to, I’m just not sure how he’d decide. He said he doesn’t want to be put in the position of deciding which emails are good enough to merit a response and which aren’t. I probably can’t change his mind, and don’t want to pressure him to do something he doesn’t want to do, but I am trying to figure out how to process this so I can move past it. Wondering what people’s thoughts are on this? Has anyone else struggled with email responses or hugs from T? I guess they are similar in that both provide some sort of reassurance. I get that I’m supposed to be able to do it on my own, but I’m pretty much an expert at that already, and it felt nice to get responses and not feel so on my own for a change and I’m mourning that loss.