Um. Ok, a different perspective to add.

You have only been seeing T for 6 months? This is your first T? And you are "working on difficult, painful, yukky stuff."

Personally, I think the amount of contact you are needing is because you are going tooo fast. This seems like a real quick time to establish trust, learn containment, etc,etc before dealing with the tough stuff.

Now, I am not saying you are not supposed to contact T.
I call my T. Usually after a session when I think T hates me. If I have a crisis, I call T.

I don't think it is normal to be this needy of T because I think it means you are going too fast. You might wear him out and force him to establish boundaries on your calls or emails. (Ask Sol)

Also IMHO, I don't think you can compare Pink's experience. Her T is very rare. I just think you need to access this issue and beware that T can reduce contact (which will hurt)

Just my two cents....