Sentiment classification in psychological counseling scenes aims to obtain the sentiment polarity of the inquirer’s utterance, which can provide support for establishing psychological counseling Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants. Existing methods obtain the sentiment polarity of text through contextual information, failing to consider the sentiment transmission between the current sentence and the forward neighbor sentences in the dialogue record. To address the issue, a model for sentiment classification of psychological counseling text was proposed based on Attention Over Attention (AOA) mechanism. Historical sentiment words were assigned weights by temporal sequence, which improved the accuracy of sentiment classification for psychological counseling text. In a dialogue, historical sentiment word sequences of both sides were extracted by constructed sentiment lexicon of mental health. Subsequently, the current sentence and two sequences of historical sentiment words were input into the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network to get corresponding feature vectors. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve was used to allocate internal weights to the sequences of historical sentiment words. Both inertia features and interaction features were captured by AOA mechanism. Then, the above two features along with the text features were input into the classification layer, calculating the probability of sentiment polarity. Experimental results on public dataset Emotional First Aid Dataset show that the proposed model improves F1 value by 1.55% compared with Capsule network and Directional Graph Convolutional Network (Caps-DGCN) model. Hence the proposed model can effectively improve the sentiment classification effect of psychological counseling text.