One client came in thinking she needed to sort out her career. She was doing well, good at her job, well-regarded - but something felt flat and she couldn't put her finger on it.
By session 3 we weren't talking about work at all. We were talking about why she'd quietly stopped seeing her closest friends. Why she'd cancelled the yoga membership 3 times and never gone back. Why she felt off in her marriage without being able to say why.
The career wasn't the problem. It was one sign of a longer drift from herself.
That's usually how it goes. The thing that brings someone in is rarely the whole picture.