Isn't this potentially just a form of talk therapy? Yes the person listen has no medical training and that /could/ be dangerous, but neither do you friends and

Isn't this potentially just a form of talk therapy? Yes the person listen has no medical training and that /could/ be dangerous, but neither do you friends and if you have they you talk to them, perhaps some people just don't have friends or perhaps need an 'air gap' and need someone with some distance from their lives to hear them out so they can't talk things through out loud? Personally - I think it sounds interesting and potentially therapeutic.