Therapy may be helpful of course, but the criticisms are also broadly valid.

Psychotherapy tends to address certain subjective experiences, mostly ones born largely of alienation under liberal society, including the demand to separate the personal from the public, and other structural problems, even while it remains powerless to change experience as comprehensively as would be possible only by resolving their structural antecedents.

In addition often to shifting responsibility to the individual for social problems, therapy is often framed as a panacea, rather than being recognized merely as helping some individuals with certain problems under particular circumstances.

Therapy works best for someone who is burdened minimally by genuine hardship, but still feeling distressed.

Unfortunately, most living currently are burdened by various kinds of material and social hardship.