I would be curious why and explore it or decide I had no respect for her (if she is in the habit of intentionally mocking and admitting without good explanation) which would take care of any hurt; she wouldn't count as someone whose opinion I cared about? I would not be able to keep working with her.

My husband hit me once and my brain yelled, "Kill!" but I had just enough self-control to first ask, "Why did you hit me?" and he had the correct answer; I almost caused us both potential deadly harm. You can hit me all day long if I'm doing something thoughtless or stupid like that, whatever it takes to protect you and me.

As the saying goes, there's usually a "method to one's madness" or I consider one truly "mad" and beyond my ability to know/interact with? I believed my T made fun of me once (I had Friday sessions) and I spent a miserable weekend but finally figured it out; she wasn't making fun of me, she was realistically warning me; I normally did do X and if I continued to do X like I usually did X then bad things would keep happening! That's just the facts, the reality, whether I liked it or it hurt or not. The warning was, "Heads up and try to do something different this time or we're both in the soup!" No point otherwise in saying, "You always behave like a loser in this situation, if you keep behaving that way, you'll keep being a loser." I figured out how to ignore the "past" behavior, but to take note of it (it was true, as painful as that was, I had to admit it) and change it to something else, to "flip" it and try the opposite, try anything else, so I didn't hit the same raft-ripping rock in that great mill race called life (sorry :-)