That's what parents are for.
Children who have been traumatized need counseling.
“That’s what parents are for.”
I’m not suggesting that counselors can replace parents. Neither can other kinds of doctors.
But emotional trauma is just as real as a gunshot wound to the head. No reasonable parent is going to try to perform trauma surgery on their own child when they have access to someone else who is an expert in this. You would only resort to such emergency measures if there was no other option.
I’m not talking about normal stresses of life, like concerns over body changes at puberty. Sure, parents should ordinarily be capable of helping their own children through these issues. Good parents will seek out information to help even with these kinds of issues.
But when we are talking about things like a child being attacked, assaulted, kidnapped, tortured, etc. parents are not ordinarily equipped to provide all of the medical care that their own children need in order to recover and heal.
It is very likely that the child in this article went through some kind of abuse before going to this counselor. And apparently this counselor exploited her vulnerability, further damaging and traumatizing the child.