I was seeing mine a long time and thought I could trust him. He wound up repeating my private details to another person who was not a counselor by any stretch. He broke every rule of ethics because he took a shine to some girl who never liked me and was dying to get the low-down on me to spread it around the hospital wrehere I work. I was destroyed...my reputation is completely ruined at work and my counselor could care less. That is what I learned about trusting a T.

I understand you may want to ask him/her questions but maybe you can ask him what you need to know as if you are asking about someone else in your life. Make up a third person like a relative or something who has this "problem" and you want to help them with it. It might work.