Pretty much no silence. My therapist and I are both VERY talkative. If I'm very touched or if one of us needs to gather their thoughts, it may be 5, 10 seconds at most. Maybe with one or two exceptions in 5 years when I physically couldn't talk and he was quieter. If I physically can't talk and I'm really affected it helps to have him say something with empathy, but when I'm just gathering my thoughts I sometimes wish he would give me longer to really have a contact with myself before I react.