Does it ever occur to a therapist the client might reject help because the therapist is wrong or her advice is bad? Sometimes too, advice giving is its own entrapment, firing consecutive ignorant solutions, then sighing in exasperation at the rejecter's hopelessness.

And there are many times, passages, tunnels when a life will be painful. Sometimes all the alternatives are dreadful, or one chooses to adhere for a later payoff. Or maybe there are options, but the risk might be too great. Or despite everything, someone strategically chooses to stick with the devil she knows or the lug she once loved. Or maybe she's too tired to move again.

Sometimes the only alternative is simply to wail.

I'd say a therapist who thinks she can pants kick a client into excising all pain and problems, to live without uncertainty, difficulty or texture is in the wrong business. She should find something less messy and inconvenient.