Therapy Mechanisms

Summary

Psychotherapy genuinely works, but most of what makes it work is shared across every credible method — the relationship, a believable rationale, your own expectation of getting better — not the branded technique on the door; the honest exception is that for fear-based problems (phobia, OCD, PTSD), one specific ingredient, exposure, does carry its own weight, so "all therapy is the same" is as wrong as "you must find the one right method." ---