A paying client is deserving of ones undivided attention. Experience is nothing unless one learns from their experience. Talking about oneself seldom makes another person feel heard. Better to listen with the intent to understand when someone is speaking. Again, at least you found a good one in the long run. Count your blessings. Some of the most in need people cannot afford therapy. Therefore, they either learn how to process their own emotions through experience, or they create suffering for others and themselves. Who's to blame? No one. As a species, we all lose in the long run unless everyone's lives are able to be sustained. This civilization will undoubtedly collapse