we need accessible, helpful, meaningful alternatives to therapy, even if it just means seriously improving our practices of mutual support. we need something.
whatever it is, i don’t believe it could be mediated through the internet. a lot of helpful support work can be done on here, but it’s not the same as physical presence and the social, emotional, and spiritual support that can offer.
This probably has a failure mode where whatever new thing you come up with ends up being called “[modifier] therapy”. After all, “therapy” just means ways of getting treatment for your health issues.
Which, OK, would not be much of a failure; it still means that you will have a new alternative that lacks whatever downsides or fills whatever hole you’re seeing currently in therapy options. People who only know that “therapy bad”, though, would then still be left in the dark and unable to gain the support they need…
I would suggest that, if you have issues with “therapy”, you name those issues, and aim instead to de-normalize types of “therapy” that have these issues; so that you will be able to go instead something like “oh, I don’t find expert therapy / external therapy / troubleshooting therapy very useful, but mutualist therapy / private therapy / brainstorming therapy was very helpful to me”. [All modifiers in this example made up.]
(and who knows! in the process people might discover that there already are non-standard types of “therapy” that already will work for them; or even that whatever bad therapy experiences they had run into were never the standard to begin with)