I doubt it's a first HIC. I know if I had my Ts email, I'd be sending stuff periodically! As it is, I have Ts cell for emergencies, and there have been so many times I've been tempted to text something I've found. Not brave enough yet!

I've done this - once with an inspirational YouTube poem - she seemed to be okay with it (and watched it). I felt totally bad/silly and guilty at the time. My T (T2) has been instrumental with my ability to share artwork - she was the first person I showed my work to. So I will email her my time lapse paintin videos and Flickr links to my pictures. It's a somatic way I process so it's relevant to our processing because I can describe how I felt. I consider that a little weird. My other T (T1) who I do not email, and my P have seen stuff on my phone (the videos or pictures). T1 and I and another group T I was alone with for a "group" have sat and watched a you tube or two before in session. LOL I never stopped to think about it... You're not alone!!

Oh, I have done even more than that. I have sent my T silly stuff that was kind of like a private joke or way of making fun of her. Like one time she kept talking about the squirrels in her office complex and so I sent her a link to a website about squirrels. She actually thought it was funny and wasn't mad about it. Another time she didn't know what emoticons were so I sent her a link about them and apparently she embarrassed herself all week telling her friends about learning this, lol.

I do stuff like what BLT described above! All the time. It helps keep a connection.

T and I have watched youtubes together. I have sent him links to articles that are relevant and pictures that made me think of him and a video my church played that I thought he would like. I also sent him links to youtube videos of my mom performing, but he never mentioned it and so I doubt he watched them. I think I am his only client who emails him right now (outside of maybe one time issues) and he's not very good with email, doesn't check it much unless he knows something is coming in. Sometimes my stuff goes straight into SPAM for some reason (others it doesn't), so if I don't text him that I've emailed, he sometimes either doesn't notice it or it gets deleted as SPAM accidentally. When I send him links, I am always too embarrassed to text him about it, so only a couple of times has it been an article or something we've talked about later. Like that one on touch in therapy. Anyway, usually if there was something I thought would be fun to show him, I would do that in person if I remembered when I happened to be there.

Edit: Oh, but when we have done Skype, there have been a couple of times we have linked one another to something, like a song I was going to be playing for church that I thought he might like or some info I came across.

Thanks everyone. It is fascinating to read about how different T relationships go in all these little details. So fun to learn that some of you make lighthearted, just for fun communications regularly. Knowing this somehow makes me feel like lightening up a bit, lol, as opposed to worrying over this. I'm sure T will just be amused if anything.

She hasn't emailed me back but probably she will say something about it at our next session. Looking forward to her reaction.