That would bother me as well. As someone else mentioned, maybe she's trying to do the blank slate thing? My T will smile and laugh quite often (he does try to stifle the laughter on occasion when I say something unintentionally funny). But then, he also knows me quite well now (after 2 years) and knows I will joke around about something that's an uncomfortable topics and that I'm OK with him laughing at my jokes (or sometimes he'll just smile and say "You're funny") or joking around some himself. I'm not sure he was quite that way with me in the beginning, so it could be part of feeling a newer client out, as someone else mentioned. I'd ask her about it.