I believe that therapy works for everyone.....I DON'T BELIEVE that every therapist is qualified to help everyone.....& I believe that most therapists don't fit the person's needs that are seeing them nor do they adapt their therapy to work for the person.

IMO, & from my own experience, therapy is about teaching the person skills that are lacking or they wouldn't be having the problems they are having (even with the more serious mental illnesses I think therapy can help teach the person how to deal with the struggles that their MI creates in their lives).

I wasted almost 15 years with psychologists (those who had their PhD's) until finally moving 2100 miles away from my bad marriage & finding a new & wonderful therapy group & within that group ending up with the 2 best psychologists I've ever experienced in my life. They were good because they taught me skills & educated me on how the brain actually works unlike the ones who just sat there & listened to me blah blah blah about my life without much feedback if any & totally wasted my time & money for those 16 years. I have come farther in the last 7 years than in all those wasted 16 years.

I think teaching for me is truly the best technique of therapy because it is us who needs to do the learning because it's us that has the problem with knowing how to handle the things in our life that are bothering us. Even with my anorexia, it was important to learn what was going on in my life that was the underlying issues & learning skills & then also doing a chain analysis of where a behavior came from is so very important & it created a growth & understanding. We have to come to the knowledge & understanding ourselves because a T can't fix us, but they can teach us the skills so that we understand how to fix the problems that we do encounter on a daily basis & learn better & new ways of dealing with those things or teach us how & give us the support we need for ourselves to get out of the bad situations we may find ourselves in.

I think this is actually valuable for EVERYONE, not just people who have mental illnesses they are dealing with because most people these days have never learned the quality skills needed to deal with the difficult things in life.