Seems like an honest response. We have to remember we are one of many clients that a therapist works with. On vacation, probably various clients go through their minds at various times, but I highly doubt they spend a great deal of time contemplating any of them. They ARE on vacation after all. I don't spend a great deal of time contemplating my coworkers or my students either, but yes, some of them my cross my mind as something reminds me of them, etc., but it is brief and my focus is on my vacation, my family, my travels, etc. That's pretty normal and absolutely NO reflection on anything except that I'm on my personal vacation time.
I can tell you a story about "it can happen" though. My therapist came home from a couple of week fishing/camping trip. We were back in session talking about who knows what. At one point, he said "I was thinking about this very thing the other day while I was fly fishing on the river and I had this insight about what you are going through . . . " So yes, "it can happen." It wasn't deliberate or planned on his part; I just happened to float through his head at that moment and he actually had almost forgotten about it until I said something in session that refreshed that memory for him.
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