With most of my T’s I didn’t care, didn’t ask and they didn’t offer. Admittedly I have not asked current T nor has he offered. He has shared enough about himself that I can sort of put the pieces together... perhaps not perfectly but enough to get an idea.
I do know my T has been in his own therapy at different points in his life. I know that some of the things he does with me are because his T did them with him and he found them helpful. I know that the vast majority of things he asks me to do he tries to do himself. He doesn’t always do “his homework” either so has sympathy when I just can’t. I know what he did before he went to school to be a T and some of why he was motivated to change careers at that time. I know that there is some overlap in our struggles but they aren’t the same. I know we have both had struggles that the other didn’t.
It works for me.