For me, trust is usually based on experience. I don't trust people just because they are in certain positions, relative to me or in general. It usually comes when someone demonstrates with their actions that they have interest, competency in whatever I am trying to do with them, they are respectful, and are willing to invest and make effort, not just expect gain without contributing. I also like to feel that the person is compatible with me. I usually start new experiences with an assumption that there is nothing to distrust a priori, then let my experience and reality guide the rest. So, trust for me is largely an earned thing.

In terms of therapy, I went into it first with a completely open mind and a lot of curiosity. I had two Ts and, even after having a bad ending with the first, I was able to be open to the second very much in the beginning, in part because he seemed so different. What I learned though from critically evaluating my experiences, including my side of it, is that therapy is really not very useful for me. So, of course, now I tend to approach it skeptically when I discuss it and am not planning on doing more therapy anytime soon, because now I don't trust I would gain much from it. I tend to approach most life experiences in this way: with openness at start and then see what happens. Of course sometimes I have intuitive red flags but if the rest of the situation is appealing and promising, I like to give it a reality check. Sometimes it takes effort to force myself to overcome skepticism that often comes from previous experiences that I compare with the current one (sometimes unconsciously). But if the current reality shows that my doubts are unfunded, it can be very liberating to be open to a different experience and not derive strong conclusions based on assumptions, projections and such.