I see my T as a real person, because she does self-disclose, she is transparent and honest, and I like that. But she is careful and appropriate.....what she discloses does have a relation to what we are talking about with me and my situation. She doesn't generally just share things out of the blue to simply be sharing them. But she does believe in therapists showing themselves to be real people with weaknesses, impairments, hurts, themselves.....so she has been honest about those with me, as they fit into the scheme of my therapy.