are counsellors always useless?

I don't know about you guys, but personally, I have yet to find a single counsellor in my life I have ever found useful.

They tend to always strike me as a bit naïve and out of touch with truths about the human condition that isn't something they read in a book or learned in grad school. Very rarely have I ever found them spouting anything resembling true wisdom, all I get are empty regurgitations of common knowledge.

I get that their job isn't to solve your problems for you, and that it's up to the client to find their own solutions through talking and analyzing them. But most of the time, I find them only good at offering brief, momentary support. All they're good for is just feeling bad for you and offering meaningless sentiments of sympathy. They're sorta like emotional prostitutes in a way.

Psychologists and psychiatrists can certainly be useful, but so far, I find counselling one of the most useless professions out there. I feel the only reason it exists, is because not everyone can afford to see a psychologist. It's basically the poor man's version of proper therapy. Except even that doesn't quite justify its existence, as the price gap between seeing a counsellor and a psychologist ain't that significant. Both will put dents in your wallet, but only one actually helps.

Anyone else share my thoughts on counsellors?

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