Posted by raisinb on April 8, 2008, at 10:10:13
In reply to Emails, posted by Daisym on April 8, 2008, at 2:18:21
My therapist and I don't email, so I don't have concrete experience to share with you.
I thought about how I'd feel in your situation, though, and I realized I'd hate it. I've never had any communication from my therapist that didn't involve her voice--either in person, or on the phone, or on my voice mail. Like many people, I sometimes save my therapist's voice mails to listen to in case I am in need of comfort. It's less what she says than it is the quality of her voice, which I think takes on a kind of--not quite magical?--somehow powerful, though--effect. I can identify her different "tones," and which ones contain more emotion than others.
Email would upset and scare me, because I couldn't hear her, and thus it would feel so impersonal. I wouldn't be able to judge her tone, so I feel like I'd lose so much of the communication. (This might be important to me because our relationship involves so much miscommunication, of course.)
Since you're going to be away, though, I think it's wonderful that your therapist is willing to do this, especially since it isn't something he'd ordinarily do.
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