Consult your friend on all things especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
And religion causes most of the problems war and economics of course and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling you don't get it you're missing the whole point.
But look you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them and instead the coverup was created.
My father still is a lawyer and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved doesn't make another person feel loved.
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
When undertaking marriage everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts and take counsel from himself.
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel full of the knowledge of God of examples of virtues and of correction of vices of the end of this life and of the life to come.
Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.