"It was part of my 'tools of the trade' to get to the bottom line truth" gfs

"at least I'm not damaging people's lives who believe what I'm talking about!" gfs

If anyone has come to you, in an emotionally vulnerable state, for counselling, and you have supposedly "gotten to the bottom line truth" with them in anything remotely like the way you claim to think you have done here, there can be little doubt that you have done significant damage to some lives.