I don't care much about attractiveness in a sense of physical beauty in a therapist, but have the same mindset as magicalprince about wanting to work with someone who is able to take care of him/herself. If for nothing else, this is to have an example and inspiration for me to do the same. At the same time, I don't think I would want to have a T who is unpleasant for me to look at (even if well-groomed), that would defy the purpose of my going there to get better.

What mattered to me the most when I investigated different T's was their therapeutic approach (I would not have chosen someone I had no information about) and then my first impression on how I liked them in person (in consultation) and my instincts that we had a possibility to form a good team. In a way, we can call this attraction, but in the more complex interpersonal sense, not in a purely physical sense.