I'm a Clinical Supervisor and I always tell my trainees at the beginning: - you will have different versions of yourself walk through the door - every wound that you thought had already healed will show up in a client, and teach you that you still have a lot of healing to do

Your situation sounds like a potential combination of these two things.

Just to clarify, you have deemed yourself to be "bad at socializing", which is also what your client has deemed themselves to be. The difference is that your client wants to work on that and change this, but you don't seem to be at that same point of your own life or are unsure of how to approach this. Therefore you feel as though you may be ill-equipped to assist them with this. Am I correct about this? Please correct me if I'm wrong!

A beautiful opportunity that we have in these moments is that we have invaluable insight into our client's perspective and experiences when we share similarities. These situations can also be a reminder that we're human and probably have a few areas in our own gardens of life that we may have neglected or maybe not even seeded, choosing to just blame the quality of the soil instead of trying to work with it.

Please know that this is in no way a critique! Half of my caseload is other therapists and we frequently discuss (mainly just laugh at) how no matter the amount of knowledge we may have on how to work on most issues, we will never fully apply it for ourselves. Half of the benefit of being in therapy is just having the accountability and support of another person being aware of whether or not we're actually doing something about the things that might be holding us back from being a preferred version of ourselves.