I've had harmful experiences too, but the good experiences I've had in therapy have been extremely valuable to me, and hugely beneficial to my life as a whole. Life-changingly beneficial. I don't think there's a way for me to reconcile how useful and important therapy has been for me with a view that sees therapy as inherently harmful.

Since I don't think that bad, harmful therapy is inevitable, I'm left with thinking about how to separate the good from the bad, how to protect people from harm, and how to increase people's access to the benefits that are possible.