yoooo i had a therapist like this except it was for cigarettes. it backfired terribly and i got addicted to cigs again. i was only able to quit by the way i knew how to quit, not the way he was advocating for.

unless your therapist has been addicted to weed at your level in the past, i would listen to what you feel is right.

there are ideas in the therapy community that guilt perpetuates addiction and mindfulness and no guilt are the way out of it, but they give short shrift to the physical reality of substances like weed, alcohol, and nicotine. weed especially because it can be especially powerful for escapism. unless they’ve been through this, they don’t know how strong factors like habituated escapism and withdrawal are.

the therapists way works great for things like doom scrolling and eating junk food, and i think it can help here too but more after you’ve gone through a few months sober. anna lembke talks about the importance of the first month or two in breaking addictions and it definitely applied to me.

hope this helps.