The therapies my T and I used to work through pre-verbal, infant stuff were EMDR and ego state therapy. We had to do this early-in-life work before I could move forward in my life, because I had some big problems to tackle and was totally stuck. We also did some post-verbal, young work (child-aged). For me, ego state therapy was particularly powerful, and did evoke a lot of feelings. (My T also uses Lifespan Integration therapy, but we didn't formally do that--it has some similarities to ego state therapy and we did use some of its elements.) When I first came to therapy, my T said I was one of the most contained people he had met--where were those feelings? So I've been helped by therapy a lot in learning to detect, feel, and express my feelings. That is really good old fashioned psychotherapy, so if your issues include not being able to feel your feelings, you may find you don't need the most recently developed techniques for that. On the other hand, maybe they would be just the ticket--I think I needed something really powerful to help me. What is powerful to a person varies with the individual, of course. (CBT is not a technique that could help me with my problems.) Ygrec, if you do decide that you need the most up-to-date techniques to help you, and you think your T doesn't have them, does that mean you will seek out another T? Ask your T to learn these techniques? Try them on your own?