Professional advocacy in clinical mental health involves ensuring clients have sufficient information to make their own decisions and choices. It also involves advocating for the counseling profession and clinical mental health field. Both professional advocacy and client/social advocacy are important to ensure all individuals have access to resources like healthcare and employment that support optimal mental health. As a professional advocate, it is important to stand by elderly clients who have been released from prison and vouch for them, making them feel supported no matter what others may say.