Oh, so rape victims seeking emotional support from counselling are all losers who worship quacks? Counselling doesn't necessarily have to be founded on science as long as it achieves the effect of communcating verballing/emotionally with the person involved and find out how him/her can have less trouble living within the boundaries of society.

People who seek out counselors for emotional support are indeed seeing a quack (someone who engages in a profession that is not scientific, but pretends like his profession is). However, you are correct it is possible that a counselor could help in the scenario you mentioned. But it's also possible that talking to one's parents or friends could help just as much, if not more than, talking to a counselor.

People have the freedom to waste their money however they want however. So if a rape victim wants to waste money seeing a counselor, that's their choice. But counseling should never be mandatory (even though it is sometimes, usually only if laws have been severely broken, and even this is a stupid practice) since it is a quack art. People should never be forced to go to counseling. Especially not to "cure" something that is not even a sickness in the first place. Pedophilia is not a sickness. Even the 6-year old toddler version is not a sickness. It's just abnormal. It does not need to be cured. And the 15-year old girl version of pedophilia is even completely normal.

Insisting that pedophilia, in any form, needs to be "cured" through counseling (or any other method) is like insisting that gays need to be cured from being gay. Or insisting that people who are ugly need to be cured from being ugly. Or that blacks need to be cured from being black. Or that Buddhists need to be cured and converted to Christianity. And sending a pedophile to "counseling" (a worthless practice) is not gonna be any more helpful than sending him to a quack who waves around a magic wand and claims to cure people through "magic".