Yeah, isn't this the whole point of professional service? To have a certain time in a week when someone could help me figure out my **** without bringing their own **** into the conversation.

Therapy doesn't work for me either, but not because I was ever craving a "two way relationship" in therapy. I got into a somewhat two way relationship with the last therapist due to him leading me there by bringing too much of his "true self" into the consulting room.

While I express a lot of criticism of therapy as a system, I never denied that, just as it is, it still works for many people...while, unfortunately, doesn't work for many others. So, I am certainly not going to "convert" anyone into my ideology if it is clear to me that the person is fine where they are.