Should I send my therapist an email?

Yesterday we concluded our 8-session maximum. I couldn't really express to her how much I appreciated all that she's done and that I will miss her. And I do miss her and it's hard to think I won't see her again. Is it ok for me to send her a short email stating this?

BTW it was therapy via my university. She's a doctoral student and I'm a student as well.

I don't see why that wouldn't be ok! She will probably very much appreciate your gratitude.

I think that's great that you want to tell her thanks for her help, and I don't see any harm in sending a thank you note, so long as you won't be upset if she doesn't reply. Even if she appreciates the note, she may not respond due to concerns about starting out of session contact (I think different T's have different policies about that). But if you're OK with that, I don't see any harm.

I would totally send an email, or something snail mail. I think that T's deserve to know their work was appreciated.

I too think an email would be fine. I sent mine flowers when I left the UK, as she had been a great source of support and I had really appreciated it. I did call her on one occasion after I left and although it was really nice to talk to her it did remind me how much I missed her so I don't think I will do that again, or not for a while at least.

I would think that Ts probably like being appreciated, just as we all do. I'm glad it was such a help to you.

i think she'd love an email or a letter like this. especially since she's still a student and still starting out. at my uni, we go into psych because we want to help people out, but we spend the whole training program worrying that we haven't helped, or helped enough, or even done harm. a simple thank you can mean so much.

like the others have said though, do send it so long as you're comfortable that she may not be able to reply.