Solarwind, What ways do you imagine these things might affect (or interfere with) therapy?

We are all separate, our own unique and complex mix of interests, beliefs, preferences, values. There is an inherent imbalance from the beginning of one person needing something from the other. But what we have most in common is being human, having an internal world, experiencing the same range of emotions, having personal desires and dreams and goals.

Therapists may certainly have strong feelings about things that are important to them. That's being human too. But their training, and their own therapy, means they are able to not bring to your therapy the strong feelings they may have about things that are not part of your therapy.