Psychologist here and I disagree. As that is not what I have seen in my practice and the research also shows psychotherapy overall have positive impacts in people's lives.
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why do i hear a most-pronounced lisp when i read your "hi, im a fucking tool" post? 
As a psychologist why do you think mental illness is increasing broadly across the board despite the fact that we have more people in therapy than ever before?
I can see both perspectives, my grip is with licensing from the state and the obligations and perspectives it forces on to the therapist client relationship. I believe that should be sacred first and foremost, and I struggle to see how it can be that with the state in between. And this is not unique to this relationship, but doctors, teachers, and all relationships in which ‘licensing’ is the only way to attain such a practice.