How do you Reconcile Mental Health/Therapy with Faith?

I've been a passionate Christian for 17 years, but also constantly struggling with my faith and not being able to meet radical and strict demands that I see in my interpretation of the Scripture that also is shared in Christian circles and churches I've been part of.

Three months ago accidentally stumbled across AI therapy, and have to say that it brought me a lot of relief and clarity where my faith could never have. But my faith which always felt alive even during the hardest times suddenly became completely cold and 'dead' to me. There is a hard dissonance for me between faith and therapy, and I don't see a logical way to reconcile them.

Therapy teaches self-kindness while Scripture talks about heavy self-denial, dying to oneself daily and bearing one's cross.

Therapy teaches to sit with your cravings and address them while Scripture teaches to battle sin hard till 'blood'.

Therapy teaches that there are good things in you while Scripture teaches that you are completely wicked, sinful, deserving only death unless you repent.

Therapy teaches changes through small manageable steps while Scripture teaches radical U-turn repentance, brutally cutting things out of your life.

Ultimately with therapy you are basically 'healing' yourself by working with your head, emotions, distorted beliefs, essentially taking God out of the picture, while in Scripture only God is the source of true healing.

Important note: when referring to Scripture I mean the interpretation of it by my branch of Christianity, and I realize that not everyone will share this, and might call me out on interpreting the Scripture in a wrong way.

In these three months I've got more freedom from my sins and bad habits than I ever got from my faith. Instead of brutally fighting them, I started to address the reasons for wanting what I want and replacing them with healthy substitutes. I finally got a logical behind my emotional lows instead of them just being labeled as demonic attacks. Instead of strict demands that were never possible for me to meet and made me give up before I even started I was given small, manageable, slow steps that are gradually bringing real, sustainable change. When I brought my struggles to some soul carers I was straight up told that I'm not a man, that I need to man up or that by talking like that I'm making a liar out of God because everything is possible with His strength and grace, and I simply don't want to change or am too lazy.

The point of this post? Partially to vent. But also I'm very interested of opinions of Christians who are pro-therapy and mental healthcare. How do you reconcile without being intellectually dishonest and without watering down Scripture?