My T has offered help following tough sessions like that too. And tbh I’ve basically replied “what the f are you going to do for me?”

While I didn’t ask it appropriately, it was a retort in anger really vs a question, my T did respond. Perhaps you could ask your therapist what they mean by that? How did they make their offer (text, email, etc?), you can reply in the same way they reached out.

You’ve said you’ve communicated between sessions all the time, what makes this different? How do you know you couldn’t ask to talk over the phone?

I have pretty strict boundaries with my T, and would never do what she offered, but essentially because of the state I was in there were really several options she provided. Brief text, phone call, an extra session, just to sit with me somewhere, etc.

Your T reached out to you, what’s preventing you from responding that you do feel like you could use some help between sessions, but you don’t know what that would look like?