Oh no, I did talk about it. I may have overwhelmed her with it. I should have made that clear in my original post.

I went in there with a very large hand-drawn poster (my newest journaling medium! it's really fun, I highly recommend it!) complete with diagrams, comics, lists, drawings and text boxes explaining in what felt like excruciating detail what this issue was like for me.

The last part of it was my written proposal for dealing with it in therapy. I read it with her and she said she'd think about it. The checking in by phone is because I need for her not to disappear for seven whole days while I am processing trauma. The last time we did intense trauma work together it "just happened," we did not plan for it and it was a shitshow where I did not feel supported and felt constantly vulnerable and triggered. Now we both know better and I need some kind of plan that recognizes that this work requires more from her than advising me in session to remember to stay with my breathing the rest of the week.

She is of course free to say no and contribute her own ideas about what she is willing to do, if anything, and what she feels is appropriate. That was just one of several of my ideas (all of which were respectful of her professional boundaries and involved paying her for her time.)

I went on vacation shortly after that session and then had other things I wanted to talk about. I know it remains my responsibility to Use My Words and direct my own session but her silence on this issue (6 wks!) is unnerving and uncharacteristic. She knows because I told her (having put on my big girl panties and Used My Words and whatnot) that this shyt freaks me right out and I feel like she's saying, huh, sucks to be you, good luck with that!