Your therapist sounds negative and all gloom and doom.
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Using pessimism such as “you need friends or else you’ll be alone”.
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I believe in this too, but there are helpful ways in helping you and unhelpful ways. Being around someone positive, hopeful, encouraging might make a difference, especially if you are prone to introjection. Emotions are contagious.
He comes across as not being on your side, or you are experiencing that way as that's what your writing reflects. Having a supportive person in your life can go a long way. Who wants to seek help from someone negative instead of positive.
People turn out having more to give and share, loving, when they are loved. Hate, judgement, and criticism don't transform to love, it transforms to anger, hate, despondency.