There’s also the risk that emotional support and friendship can interpreted as romantic interest. Either within a male-female friendship or by others. More importantly it shouldn’t be a female job to provide all the emotional labor for society!
Talking through a problem can help you solve it. Getting another perspective can help too. Even just knowing that someone else in the same situation would do the same thing you are doing can be validating and make you feel better. So the “doing” can just be listening and applying mental energy to your experiences.
Idk, even if the problem is “everything fucking sucks” the solution can be “but I can make it tho”.