Barn cats are actually pretty important. rodents can be terrible, and spread disease due to the conditions they often live in. Cats help with snakes and certain bugs as well (larger bugs they can swat at. Usually just kill them and play with them, but I've seen cats eat them too)
But is still absolutely essential to spay/neuter barn cats, and provide them with safe places to get away from coyotes. Spay/neuter is to prevent them from making more cats, which can quickly get out of hand. For getting away from coyotes, raised areas they can quickly climb to are good. Yes coyotes can jump, but I've never seen a coyote climb. Their front legs just dont bend the right way to let them grab the tree
Therapy really doesnt help. For some people it can be amazing, but it just won't work for everyone and that is ok.
For me personally, I'm just too different from how the therapists wanted me to be (I know this sounds weird, I will explain). They (plural, I've seen multiple) would try to convince me I can and do experience things that "are normal human feelings that everyone experiences", and didn't seem to be able to understand the things I was telling them I actually experience. They could not understand that I simply do not think in any conventional manner and do not have the same thoughts other people do. And I am not saying "Oh I think differently I am such an intellectual, infinitely superior to mere mortals". There are a lot of things my brain cannot do at all, I will never be able to drive a car, and can't follow cooking recipies very well. They all had the same mindset, that somewhere in my brain the things they were looking for existed. I am lucky that I never had any serious mental health issues, I only wanted to go to ensure that I wouldn't have an issue in the future, since I am more likely to experience them, due to being significantly disabled