Velcro shares a lot of wonderful things with that post! I am sad that your T ended session early just because of the silence. My T will sit there and we just look at each other in the eyes when we have our silent times. It helps me because I feel like he can see my pain that I can't say. And one time I kept saying "I just... I just... I just..." and he said "It is OK to just sit together and not say anything if that helps." :-)
I wish you could have that somehow with your T too...