I may be in the minority here but I do not feel it is appropriate to text a therapist at all and at the very least only for scheduling purposes. At the same time your therapist should have not given you the number or said from the beginning at out of session he or she does not accept or read texts. And the therapist should have never answered you at all. I do not think its fair to have therapists be on call or involved at our disposal. I think its unhealthy for the client and murky boundaries for the therapist. I dont mean to sound cold but it increases liability, transference, reliance upon the therapist outside the bounds of therapy. They deserve to be off and have their own personal lives too. I think being strict about this is necessary to encourage the patient to be responsible for handling the crisis's out of session. At most a call and message left at the office is fine because many check their voicemails everyday and would be able to decide if and how to respond to an urgent matter.