I remember your story with your T. I vote YES contact her. If you worry about ethics, then keep the email light, more about the internet information and not in depth about yourself and I think that will be a good balance.

i would definitely email if it were me.

Somedays.

I think it's okay to email - if she needs different boundaries, I think she is capable of expressing them. It makes sense you'd feel the need to connect with her, I feel a sense even after I leave my Ts I'm not sure how I would not want to even just call them to leave a message.

Well, I did it. I sent her the info, a one sentence update on me and a thank you. I hope she doesn't mind that.
I'm not expecting a response necessarily. If I do, I hope it's good. I am a bit frightened that she'll tell me to not contact her, which at that point I would listen, of course.
I'll let you know what happens.

No response yet from former T, but it's only been a few hours.

Oddly enough I ran into a lady that used to work with former T. I admitted to her that I emailed T recently. I asked her opinion on doing that. She said that my former T is one of those who is invested in her clients/former ones and is probably fine with the fact that I contacted her.
Whew! I hope she is right. It was nice to chat to someone who used to work in that office and knows some of the people. We had the same feelings on it feeling like "home" and like we belonged there. This lady misses the clinic too. In a perfect world I could work w/her and former T! That's not reality though. The best I can hope for is an unpaid internship for 8 months.

Hi Athenacus,
Good going for sending the text! Just one question: did you explicitly ask for a reply? I went through an excruciating week not long ago after sending my T a text and not getting a reply. It triggered all kinds of very difficult stuff. And then a very wise and kind person, who's also on this forum tbw, pointed out to me that I never actually asked for a reply and in order to get this need met, I would have to learn. She also told me to examine why I sent the message: to feel the connection still there, to transfer the info (like you), etc.
Hope that helps.

Big hugs!

Former T replied with a quick thank you. I knew she would keep it brief if she did reply.
I didn't specifically ask for a response, so she didn't need to send anything. I'm glad she did though.

I did want to feel the connection and to transfer some info. Also, one of my assignments for supervision was to think back to my own therapy to write in a journal about how I want to do therapy, so I've been thinking about our sessions a lot lately.

Thank you for posting SD, Cat, and Shaman!