Ah, but of course! Your private practice clients no doubt are coming to you for positive growth and change after dealing with a lot of negative issues. Don't they experience feelings of catastrophe and need a death of their old lives for a new beginning?
You really do have to face a lot of emotions with your clients. And yet you can't get overly involved. Perhaps this is a way for you to release all of this...through dreams...
To me, it feels like an energy transfer. You take on so much of your clients' energy.