dd friend is finally going to therapy, but... ?

My friend with DD contacted me to say she has taken up my suggestion of going to therapy. But she's going to a counselor who practices something called "social therapy." She went to this therapist a few years ago, and my recollection is that practitioners of social therapy don't believe in mental illness. I guess it makes sense that the one type of therapy she can buy into doesn't think she is ill.

Won't this type of therapy just make her illness worse? Or is it good that she is a least talking to someone?