I guess the difference is in the severity of the persons mental health issues. If you're otherwise healthy, but never learned or have been discouraged from doi

I guess the difference is in the severity of the persons mental health issues. If you're otherwise healthy, but never learned or have been discouraged from doing "the basics" like talk about how you are feeling with your loved ones then you really just need someone to teach you how or perhaps just give you permission to do so. Maybe this is easier if you dress it up in a specific kind of setting, depends on the individual. If you have some potentially diagnosable serious mental health issue, then of course you should see an actual trained clinical psycologist. Sometimes you may not know which one you are, perhaps you go to the former and figure you actually needed the latter. Maybe you're happy with what you've done, or maybe not? At the end of the day you just have to try figure it out.