Actually, no. What people get "huffy" about is when you say everything every therapist does is acting. I don't think anyone argues that therapists are trained in techniques that are at times scripted (thus techniques). Those techniques bother you; some of those techniques probably bother all of us at one time or another. I do not agree, however, that everything every therapist does is an act (which is frequently how you tend to put it). That's what people get "huffy" about -- the generalization.