I totally agree with you that this is one very popular way of looking at therapy, and I'm sure it is the best path for some people. But I was seriously harmed by my first therapist's thinking along these lines. I actually needed the therapist to provide answers to the question of what more I could do to help myself- I was utterly incapable of coming up with them on my own, and I so wish my first therapist had been willing to give me basic techniques of taking care of my emotional health. I genuinely had no idea what to do when I was dissociating (or even what dissociating was), or how to use breathing or yoga to help with my anxiety and all the post-traumatic stress I had in my body. I was really quite helpless in the face of all of this, and my therapist's modality did not allow him to even make any suggestions. All I did was dredge up the trauma over and over again, with no idea that there were things I could do to handle it better.

Sorry- I don't mean to derail the thread! I just worry that some other people might be like me and be in serious need of help with coming up with solutions.