I was semi-traumatized by a well-meaning run-of-the-mill therapist. Therapists are not the problem. Therapy is the problem.

Most therapists appear to be unaware, and/or on an ego trip (or have insatiable need to be needed). But they are probably largely benign in real life. It's when you give them the power to play god in a closed room with wounded people that problems arise. Lot comes down to context.

I'd like to see people personally harmed by therapy who want to be in the mental health field think of ways to support the therapy system's casualties. And not with the usual semi-predatory psychotherapy approach wherein the victim is blamed and gaslighted and fed transference drivel and then exploited long-term for profit, etc.