I'm also a member of the T googling club though I took it too far when I drove past her house. I've had 5 Ts and I either had therapy in their house or I felt compelled to drive past their house once. My downfall is that I can't keep it to myself so I always "confess" to my Ts.

When I told my T I knew something about her deceased parents she wasn't too happy. I do genealogy so I know where to look. There's nothing on my T's FB page but her H and kids have theirs open to anyone so I looked at their photos. That got me upset so I told my T about it. I then promised myself and her that I wouldn't look up her family again. The day I told her that, I asked if she could show me photos of them so she showed me a few from her cell phone.

My former T said I look things up in order to get close to people, in this case, Ts. I think that's true, though I agree with you, jenluv, that I also do it to check out whether my T is "really" as nice in RL as she is with me. I found something a relative wrote about her and that convinced me she's real. I could have trusted my own instincts but wanted more. I still wish there was more about her online. I never promised not to google her, only her family. Now when she's out of the country, the urge to google is strong but instead I look at some things she gave me, as well as listen to an audio recording of a visualization we did in session last year.