Including someone just yesterday who said they’ve STOPPED SEEING THEIR PSYCHOLOGIST and are ONLY USING CHATGPT for therapy now.
This shit is genuinely dangerous. “AI” therapy got me feeling like 
bro fr.
Deteriorating material conditions + expensive mental healthcare options + LLMs that recommend tall bridges to suicidal people, what a fucking great recipe
That’s without even getting into the privacy concerns of telling your deepest feelings and secrets to a fucking chatbot that literally builds a profile on you. Someone else said to me recently that they basically use chatgpt to journal so it knows everything about them and their friends and god knows what else. So yeh, take comfort in the fact that even if you’ve never interacted with this dogshit, it could probably still have a deep profile on you because one of your dumbass friends decided to use it as a diary because LLMs just agree with everything you say and are very validating.
Advice is life coaching, therapy is a lot more involved. A therapist can do both but it just depends on what your needs are. Either way, there's a lot of class conscious ones out there that can help people navigate the capitalist wasteland. AI won't ever do that and it can't replicate human connection.
And if you could have figured it out on your own, then why did it take a therapist for you to get there? Maybe I'm reading too much into your phrasing.