I did very poorly with a psychodynamic therapist who just dredged up my trauma without giving me any way to relieve it. My current therapist has a lot of CBT in his background, but he's more about Buddhisty compassion than anything else. I needed practical help in learning to take care of myself, which his modality provides. He's got lots of practical suggestions involving mediation and mindfulness, yoga, self-compassion, etc. I really needed someone to help me learn how to take care of my emotional health at a pretty basic level - I suffered a lot of trauma at a very early age, and I just think I grew up with big gaps in my understanding of how I could live and what I could do to take care of myself. Therapy that just focused on giving me more insight into what was going on left me so helpless.
I don't know if any of that would help you, but do you think looking into things like yoga, meditation, exercise might help? And if you haven't already tried it, maybe finding a therapist who can help you look at practical things you can do to supplement therapy? I feel like I needed a lot more than just therapy, but I don't know how universal my experience is.
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