I have a personal experience to share as far as knowing things about your t, a cautionary tale I guess. I never asked mine any personal questions - not that I wasn't curious, of course - but she always used to make it a point to say that this time was about me, etc. She would very rarely disclose something about herself and only if it related to what we were talking about. Here lately though, she has disclosed something every time we talk and especially this last appointment about 2 weeks ago, and it put me into a tailspin. What is she thinking?!! True, my sessions are less about therapy and more along the lines of life coaching or something now, but still.... I feel like she messed with my head and now I have all these transference-y feelings and I wonder if she did that on purpose so I would need therapy again and more frequent sessions. omg I have got to get out of this mess. I wish you all the best but want to say be cautious all the same with finding out too much stuff about t.