Psychotherapy: It's Personal

I won’t tell you this is a warning from God. I’ll tell you it is nonetheless entirely too close to serving the Devil.
I’ve said before I am somewhat a fan of Dr. Thomas Szasz. He didn’t go far enough, in my opinion, but of all the therapists I’ve read, he comes closer to the truth than any of the rest. I say that as someone who walked through the Valley of Death and the Fires of Hell with the gasoline underwear. When I finally clawed my way back to reality, the experience as a whole showed me what an awful lying fraud is psychotherapy as a profession. Since that time I’ve helped people who received serious spiritual wounds from psychotherapy. I’m not likely to be calm and friendly to most therapists and “life coach” type people who love to line their pockets while crippling people morally.
They are all part and parcel with the AA Empire, teaching you to trade one form of bondage for another. Having been through the wringer and having worked closely with mental health professionals, I will warn you, particularly if you claim to follow Christ: Aside from a tiny handful of genuine medical issues, virtually all adjustment problems are addressed in the Bible. If you can just understand and apply Scripture, it would put therapists out of work tomorrow.
Jesus never charged a dime. His success rate, as men measure such things, was pretty low, and His demise is not what any man would call “success” — unless that man was spiritual. I don’t charge any money for the help I offer. One of the most hideous claims made by therapists is how high fees ensure you take it seriously and “get good results”. High fees serve to eliminate folks who aren’t already highly motivated in one way or another to believe the materialist assumptions upon which all psychotherapy is built. You don’t get what you pay for, unless you understand a materialistic system will surely make you more materialistic for the right price.
When you really need peace against that nagging gnawing hunger in your soul, materialism is the enemy. It’s one thing to recognize you need to do certain things to make it in this world; it’s another thing entirely to recognize it honestly isn’t always worth it. This world is a lie, and Jesus put a lot of effort into making sure people understood that. So I’m quite happy when my “success rate” matches that of my Savior. I’m quite willing to take all comers, even when I know certainly the client won’t benefit directly. I don’t charge high fees to keep the losers at a distance. I’ll tell you to pay a high price of another sort, without lining my pockets with graft.
I’m not better than those therapists, but my spirit despises them for all the harm I’ve seen them do. My Bible says what they do is evil, and I have to avoid it.
Addenda: Short response to an offline question — All this life coach and materialistic psychotherapy is essentially the same happy, successful, socially acceptable slop Joel Osteen is selling. It’s a shallow attempt to quiet the spiritual awareness and the prodding of the conscience by overwhelming it with sewage.