[confusedondid]

Ignore the following thread until I get a new one up... Here is what happened, but some people have already replied here so I don't want to erase it on them.......WEEEEEEELLL... LOL... I was making a beautiful poll for this thread and really got into in and made categories and everything.... LOL.. then when I went to add it, it said that it had to be added within 45 minutes, so I lost it all... (at least I was preoccupied this last hour I guess) I am going to rewrite and this thread and try posting again faster, so hang in there for me ;(

Hold on, I am making it again and excited to see the response (if I can be fast enough this time.... LOL)

OK, I have found the poll on how often you have contact with your therapist outside of session very interesting but has led to more curiosity.

There seems to be a lot of the contact for scheduling reasons, changes, being late etc... and not for support.

If you will indulge me one more time, I would love to see how often you contact for support and NOT scheduling related. Also how often you have sessions. I realized the out of session contact is greatly situational to how often you actually have sessions. If you meet once a week and contact never, you had once a week contact which would also be for the person that meets once a month and then contacts out of session weekly.

I would also be curious on the typical response rate of your therapist.

SOOO, this poll will have:

how often you see therapist for in person sessions
how often you contact outside of sessions
how quickly your therapist contacts you back

thanks

I do want to add, because as writing this, it seems it might appear I am looking for complaints on my therapist contact policy and it is quite the opposite. For the record, I have a wonderful therapist and I do contact whenever necessary which averages about once a week, with sometimes more and sometimes less I just got wondering what the 'typical' therapists policies are. I know every therapist and every client will have different needs but it interesting to see.

[toomanycats]

1. how often you see therapist for in person sessions
Once per week except in times of crisis, then I have seen him 2x per week temporarily.

2. how often you contact outside of sessions
Never. Not allowed.

3. how quickly your therapist contacts you back
N/A

Edit to Add:
With Ex-T, I saw him twice per week for 90-minute sessions each time. I emailed and texted him multiple times a day. It took him anywhere from minutes, hours, and, rarely, a day to respond (to email).

I regret it immensely. It led to only damage and pain in the end.

[Amyjay]

I meet with my therapist once a week. I email her for nonscheduling reasons (like because something happened or I want to share something personal) about once a month. During office hours she replies within a couple of hours but out of office hours she may or may not reply until the next day. depending on he subject we may have a short back and forth email exchange or it be a one reply and done kind of thing. We've never talked about the boundaries of it though.

[Elio]

how often you see therapist for in person sessions:

2x week

how often you contact outside of sessions:

Varies depending on level of stress. I would have to say my most recent rate is 1x week

how quickly your therapist contacts you back

Usually within .... hmm I want to say 24 hours. It seems that during the week, she checks her email 2x a day

her policy

I am free to email/voicemail as often as I want. She does not have a set time (like office hours) where she checks and responds to email and she does not monitor her email on a continuous basis. She has stated that she will not purposely not respond and she will respond as soon as possible (limitations are actually able to be on the internet/wifi, personal life, need to formulate an appropriate response). On the weekend it is hit or miss. She has said that she checks her voicemail 1x day. She is new to private practice so she might check things a bit more frequent as she is trying to build client base.

[confusedondid]

WEEEEEEELLL... LOL... I was making a beautiful poll for this thread and really got into in and made categories and everything.... LOL.. then when I went to add it, it said that it had to be added within 45 minutes, so I lost it all... (at least I was preoccupied this last hour I guess) I am going to rewrite and this thread and try posting again faster, so hang in there for me ;(