I think someone who is trying to decide whether or not to try therapy deserves to see that there are many sides and experiences that others have had with therapy. For some, it was positive and they think they it saved their life, for others - they had an adverse experience which was haunting and devastating, and still others somewhere in the middle. I think a client going in deserves to know it is not always as beneficial as the industry portrays itself. Even the guy who runs this site admits that therapists won't tell you that they know they can't always help someone. The lack of transparency in that profession concerns me a lot - and I believe prospective clients have a right to know the good and the bad and the amount of guessing and hoping rather than certainty that those guys engage in.

It took a couple of years for me to get the first one I see to admit she had no idea whether therapy would help me or not. It was good for her to finally admit it - I had known it all along -but her insistence that she was "an excellent therapist" was not useful to me at all.