I never found therapists, people who are strangers you hand money over to, to be all that much of anything. But they do SELL themselves as being supportive and understanding. I mean - they lie -but they do advertise it. So I don't think it is completely out of the realm for clients to think they might mean it - I think they do everything in their power to convince the client they are - regardless of whether they mean it or not - they just want clients to think it.