Ah, but isn't that like the most satisfying thing in therapy? When the client can finally see the thing that the therapist (and likely many other people in the client's life) has seen all along? I bet he'll be happy for you that you feel like it's a breakthrough, even if it isn't the first time he's thought it himself.

My T just did that today, where she was like, "Oh, isn't thing that just like this other thing?" So effortlessly, yet I had not made the connection. It's fascinating and also a little annoying when she's right.