The article is from the Guardian, which is a UK publication. Not everything is American y'know.

It's common for organisations (charities) to offer twelve weeks of counselling here. It's often person-centred, not goal oriented at all, aside from any goals that the client chooses to set themselves.

It's weird, I read it and thought 'woah, she felt that way in twelve weeks?' too, and then I realised that my extremely intense ET for my previous therapist came along at the ten session mark, so I've been there myself.

Also I was creeped out by the kiss on the head. That's not normal. It makes me wonder what else was going on in that relationship.