It kind of sounds like this parent is one of those people who doesn't really "believe in" therapy, but it's been a whole generation since I dealt with that problem in my parents; it seems a lot less likely today.

It depends on the parents background - I read a blog post on a feminist/antiracist blog in 2010 by two Asian women in their mid-to-late-twenties talking about how their parents were deeply anti-therapy, and how this was still unfortunately common for many Asian parents in 2010.