When we're feeling raw, vulnerable and exposed, it's easy to perceive actions around us as hurtful, we're sensitive. I was feeling like that Friday night and my therapist laughed at me when I said I was jealous of her dog, who she told me had just snuggled up to her (we have phone sessions). I reacted angrily right in the moment, and she got a better understanding of how I was really feeling.
Laughter is just human, and sometimes we all do or say inappropriate things, it's just a lot more glaring or unexpected when it's a therapist, because good ones are going to do it a lot less thanks to their training, focus and role in session.
But I hope you'll remember what matters, which is that (presuming she's a good T, sounds like she is?) that she was not laughing to hurt you.
She didn't want to be cruel, she didn't want to be rude, she didn't want to be demeaning.
Maybe you can give her the chance to make it right with you, that's a great part of therapeutic and other relationships, reconciling miscommunications.
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