I rushed through my first post, thanks. In my case the problems were not obvious. I was enjoying my life and was professionally and dating-wise successful. So

I rushed through my first post, thanks. In my case the problems were not obvious. I was enjoying my life and was professionally and dating-wise successful. So the analogy would be a system that appears to be running fine. My psychiatrist friend made me realize there could be more. So by the time I went to see the therapist I wasn't really sure that there is a problem. They helped me see that a bunch of areas in my life were suboptimal and I was getting in my own way. So in my case it wasn't like hiring someone to debug problems I am seeing in my system. It was like hiring a systems architect and saying "this seems to be working fine but we probably don't know what we don't know about performance" or whatever.