Hi Rainbow,

Your feelings of wanting validation from your t are normal. We all want validation. But if "not" getting the validation causes you so much pain, it makes you cry, it sounds like this is a very good opportunity to self-reflect about the reason why not getting it is so painful for you. Are you able to give yourself the validation that you've made a great breakthrough? Can you feel warm and proud of yourself internally? Or does that good feeling only come if somebody else notices your accomplishment and validates it? Is this a pattern in your life? It's actually good grist-for-the-mill to talk about in therapy with your t -- but i know you won't see her for another few months. This would be a really good time to practice self-validation and see if you can bring up inside yourself the same good feeling that you get when somebody else praises you.

About calling her -- you might hold off from calling her for a couple of days to see if the urge goes away. But if you continue feeling like you need to call her, i'd hate to see you force yourself to go without.