Thing is, professional therapy is expensive; there is already a big industry of therapists that work online, through chat, or video calls, whose quality isn't as good as a professional (I am struggling to describe the two). For professional mental health care, there's a wait list, or you're told to just do yoga and mindfulness.
So for those people, the LLM is replacing having nothing, not a therapist.
So for those people, the LLM is replacing having nothing, not a therapist.