Hello,

On the subject of metaphors you use for yourself & others, while in a therapeutic context, the usual metaphors are:

Coach
Guide
Practitioner

and for others:

Client
Explorer

As I considered the functions of a guide, it occured to me that the guide is pressuposed to have knowledge of the terrain. In a therapeutic context, I'd call that the internal world of subjective experience. At that point I questioned whether the client is actually the guide as they are intimately knowledgable by experiencing, through the senses, the terrain.

What that tells me is the client is able to guide the practitioner through their internal terrain. That would mean the practitioner becomes a passenger or tourist. At which I'd question what function other than sight seeing does the tourist serve?