Will seems pretty quick to assume the expertise as a psychologist -- from the sound of him, he could use some anger management training. I happen to specialize in it, and will take him on for five days for $3,000.
The difference between the price of grief counseling for 5 days ($1795) and the anger-management training is that this is a special course, not just any counseling -- it's Southern California anger management training. Additionally, people like George are often resistive to therapy and use their life-situation "solutions" -- fixed ideas, nullifying others, being right loudly, and so on) to place a hurdle between their actual feelings and the training facilitator. There is also some risk which requires insurance when dealing with the kind of deeply buried anger that fuels sarcasm like his.
He'd probably feel much better -- and it would reduce his risk of choking to death on a scarf.