Seems pretty unhelpful. Basically - "You're smart, you'll figure it out." I mean, by objective measures, I am also smart... but my life is currently a wreck. It also almost sounds kind of blamey or pull yourself up by the bootstraps-ish... I don't like that. The one I see sometimes says **** with that flavor, and I never find it helpful. It is not empowering to ... idk... have your life and problems thera-splained to you. For example, mine said the last session that maybe it's not that getting out of bed and doing stuff is actually too overwhelming, it's basically just me being a defeatist and thinking it will be too overwhelming. The fact that the anticipation of being overwhelmed can itself be overwhelming seems to have escaped her (and I don't think that's the problem I'm having anyway).

Anyway, I don't think you're wrong for not feeling helped. I also think he's coming from a privileged and judging perspective rather than an empathic, sympathetic, or compassionate perspective with the comment about figuring out resources without sacrificing your soul.

In short, he can get ****ed as far as I'm concerned.