Yes, I think trust goes both ways - but not in the sense that I expect T to tell me anything about himself or his issues. But it is quite important for me that he trusts what I am telling him, that he believes that I'm not making things up, and that he trusts that I'm doing the best I can in terms of our therapy work. He has also entrusted me with his mobile phone number, since he is certain that I will not abuse it. And when I have had sui impulses in the past, I would have found it much harder to tell him if he hadn't told me that he trusted me not to act on them.

So yes, it is a two-way thing.