Read this forum (or any other) long enough and you might get the idea that what therapy does PRIMARILY is cause harm.

Can take many forms: emotional dependency or enmeshment, obsession with therapist, ceaseless rumination, inability to act or decide without therapist input, becoming submerged in an infantilizing and regressive relationship, pathologizing and medicalizing of normal behavior and thinking, self-absorption, shaming or rejection from a quasi-parental figure, abandonment (emotional or literal), betrayal of trust and vulnerability, declining health from psychological stress, loss of perspective as result of being in an artificial and contrived relationship, emotional or physiological dysregulation from unnaturally rigid boundaries and time constraints, and in some cases outright traumatic experiences and abuse.

Therapists who claim there are no risks are either delusional or dangerously unaware.

I don't buy the worse-before-it-gets better argument. That's a convenient loophole for failed interventions. It's not a testable concept. Feeling worse is feeling worse.