Is this something recent?! As I recall, I had to do many things I didn't necessarily want to do growing up, but it would have never occurred to me to ask for money to do any of them, and I know what the answer would have been if I had!
( I'm talking normal stuff like chores btw, nothing illicit or pervy!). Are you saying it would be the norm nowadays for kids to get money from their parents for going to counselling, and it's just the amount big E was asking for was too high? I'm starting to feel retrospectively hard done by as a teen now if this is the case, lol!