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This would have upset me too, particularly the timing of it.

My T has never, EVER taken a call during my session. My session time feels very sacred. I asked him about it once..what if there was a family emergency, for example? - and he said he checks his messages between each session, and would deal with it then. It makes me feel safe and valued to know that we won't be interrupted.

It sounds like your T is not valuing how you feel about what happened. If he does take phone calls occasionally during sessions, then I would think he would be used to the variety of responses that might come up. I'm sorry that you feel invalidated.

Sometimes I read things in T's tone that I get totally wrong, and once we talk about it, and what was going through each of our minds, I "get" what was actually going on. I hope you will discuss this more when you see him on Wednesday.