Confession is that like a Therapy Session?

When over-hearing a dicussion on confession a jewish friend asked: "What is that like some sort of therapy session?"
Although it is very therapeutic to off load your personal crap onto the Lord, it wouldn't limit Confession to a therapy session.
So I told the lady, that it was more like a personalized individual Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement. Then I high fived myself for coming up with some really cool way to relate a sacrament to another faith.
I reality, Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement is the day where a faithful Jew seeks forgiveness and tries to amend for wrongs done. So I wasn't too far off because in reconciliation a catholic seeks forgivenss and then does penance to amend for wrongs.

As a side note, overall Catholics tend to be mentally healthier than other faiths due to the sacrament, because as science shows, that getting the burdens off our chest are very healthy and healing for the individual.

So go get your personalized Yom Kippur going and go often, it's not only good for the soul but for your mind as well.