I personally think that it should be a far more standard part of the practice for therapists to ensure that the environment they provide their clients has every opportunity to be real and not aberrant, as something which they hold themselves accountable to provide. There is no good reason for them not to actively establish ways that work for them and that do not compromise their privacy, in which to make elements of their own humanity available to the relationship and to ensure the environment is not "unreal". They should also not be depending on inflated ego effects (a.k.a. "god complex") in order to feel confident in their work, or for any other reason for that matter. These things only undermine the potential for "reality" to exist, for healing, and to me they are some of the worst habits of the industry; or, for whomever claims that they are in some way part and parcel with methodologies, then the worst tenets of those methodologies.

I guess because I very much value my own privacy, and value respect of my privacy from others, I have not been particularly interested to know details of my therapists' lives without their choosing to offer them. But as I said, in order for the relationship to not be unreal, I do think they need to find ways in which they can better participate in healthy discourse with us, and not seem like scientists peering into a microscope at an alien life form.