Popa, you are probably right about most of the time. However, the human needs a brain to work. All thoughts and emotions are created and played out with the brain. There is a concept of malfunction just as there is with any other body part. I imagine you agree to this as well.
When I mentioned someone who learned a lot, especially Lishma, I wasn’t just talking about a Rov. Learning Torah trains the mind to be much more perceptive than a course in personalities.
Just like not every Rov will do, so too, not every therapist will do. There are like five categories that some will initially try to fit any client, whether they got into an in depth relationship or not. There’s depression, OCD, AD(h)D, Aspergers, anxiety. Not being one of them almost automatically means you are the other type.
Most issues and complexes can be dealt with using true ‘common sense’. The art of penetrating into one’s soul to find what is really bothering him is not reserved for degree holders. Nor is it a trait guaranteed to them.
Unlike history and medicine, the human psyche is readily available to all. It is an internal knowledge. Having a connection to a real Talmid Chacham gives a person wisdom. But obviously, he is not the one for therapeutic methods.