I don't really care what my therapists are doing/trying to do, I assume they know how to do "it" as part of their education/experience package and, that they can do it "well" with me or that I will find them not very helpful. I like to think of myself as "unique", too, get anxious if others are too close/like me and use to deliberately give "wrong" answers when asked what I liked so I would not like what someone else in whatever group I was in liked. A therapist telling me about themselves is often too emotionally close and makes me anxious. I did not have much trouble when my T told me she had taken the exact same sailing lessons I had taken (same location/school) but that was after seeing her for over 15 years. I like to be able to control closeness/distance, not have it sprung on me by another.