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Old Jun 08, 2008, 07:17 AM
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Hey. I remember asking my therapist if it was ok for me to email him. I was fully prepared for him to say 'no'. He looked a bit surprised, but he said 'sure' and gave me a couple of email addresses. Not sure why there was confusion exactly, apparently one of the accounts was a shared one with his wife or something...

It was a bit weird. I would have been understanding if he had had boundaries around how many I was allowed to send or boundaries around his not responding to them or whatever. But... Maybe precisely because I'm so careful with boundaries with him... Maybe because of what is going on with his life... Maybe because of a whole bunch of things, he seems perfectly fine about my emailing him and about him responding.

I said I was worried about sending him too much... And he said that it was okay for me to send stuff - that he wouldn't respond if he needed not to. But still... Usually he is a bit better than this... He did admit at one point that... He doesn't email anybody else. Not in his personal life, and not with any other clients. So I think that his strangeness with email is mostly to do with his unfamiliarity with email.

But, blah. I really don't trust him to email me while I'm away, though. Time for me... To find another therapist (during that period at any rate)