Since our rupture last year, I have daily contact with my T. I used to write to her in my journal, now I either have sessions or email her. I occasionally will email her more than once on a given day. Most days that I don't have session, it is just the once. There are even few times where I don't have anything to say and I don't see the point of emailing her. We do this exercise as way to build/rebuild a connection to her.
Some of the additional emails are simply a "touch poke" are you there because I am looking for that reassurance. Sometimes it is because I don't know what to do about something specific.
My T encourages it - I am free to email her as often and whenever I want. She will respond when she is able to. She will always respond (usually once for all the emails that have come in since she last checked. So it's not always a 1-1 response. She does not do therapy through email and her responses are pretty formulaic; they do tend to try to have a line or two that is more specific about what I wrote.
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