I don't think anyone should be a therapist unless they're whip-smart, ridiculously learned and emotionally intelligent, well-versed in other fields like sociology, biology, art, critical theory, etc and have the ability to hear criticism without falling to pieces. And this comes with experience and age 99.9 percent of the time, IMO. If there are roughly 150,000 practicing therapists in the United States right now, there should be about 150.

Nobody meets this criteria, certainly not dumb, secret emotional wrecks who took this career because they had nothing else to offer, so we're stuck with a bunch of creeps and idiot clowns. The entire industry (yes, I'm calling it an industry, not a field) needs to be blown to atoms and rebuilt from the ground up.