Clients are expected to reveal deeply personal and painful things, maybe things they have never shared. Therapists typically reveal almost nothing and remain hidden. This is an absurd basis for trust. It's antithetical to trust. Just because therapy doctrine says this is the way it is does not mean people should trust it.

I don't care if a mechanic is phony with me, as long he fixes the car. Bu therapist phoniness corrupts and undermines the whole thing. The client is expected to place supreme trust in someone who simply never earns it. And if the client balks, they are pathologized and pressured further (maybe subtly or implicitly) to surrender their secrets. My god.