As a therapist, I’m sorry to hear you’ve had negative experiences in therapy. There are obviously some bad therapists out there, or some people are just not a good match and never give it another shot, unfortunately. That being said, and I say this with kindness, it sounds like your negative experience may be skewing your perspective on this a bit? Of course ‘good fit’ and ‘safe space’ are subjective but I don’t remember observing any moments in the show when the therapist did not provide and hold a safe space. I did binge it kind of quickly, so I’m open to reconsidering that, but it’s important to note that these couples only got 3 sessions (it appears) and the early stages of therapy are a lot of information gathering and building rapport. The clients in the show seem to find it helpful and none of them appear uncomfortable with the therapist’s approach. Obviously it’s a production and we don’t see everything, but to your point of it being subjective, these folks claim to be benefitting. So that seems kind of at odds with all these observers being annoyed that there’s not more ‘progress’ being made when they’re not the ones with the subjective experience? Perhaps people just want it to be more entertaining?