"counselor and client"
Uh huh.
Where the heck do many professionals get the ideas for what they want to do for a living, from no where? Many times it comes from what they have seen in their lives, whether it be an artist exposed to bad or good art, a young boy that watches a fireman rescue his famiy from disaster, a daughter that watched her father struggle with Parkinson's and one day becomes a doctor herself. This is also probably true for the types of threads we pick to comment on as well.
Use your head.