I do credit therapy for helping me, but I am not really sure how to explain how it helped. We began therapy as a broken collection of dissociated self states that functioned well enough to not need to be hospitalized, but was unable to function beyond the necessities of sustaining oneself with shelter, clothing and food. There was overwhelming self hate / disgust / shame and we had no support, no continuity of self, no capacity for relationships and an abusive family that was still a danger to us.

So I guess in therapy we had this one person, the therapist, who was continuously there (in the context of the therapeutic hour). She accepted whatever we brought to her and held it there. She reflected it back to us. She helped us hold it all together in that one place, the therapy room. She was compassionate, accepting, non-judgemental, and present. She was just 'in there with us.'
I guess that is the easiest way to describe my / our particular process with our therapist. She helped us to put the pieces together to find our self. She helped us see it could be done.

Therapy with her was years ago now, and we left before we had finished. Between then and now things have been immensely more stable, but still not... 'finished'.

What I find now is that I am ready to find and hold those pieces of me myself. I have learned from her how to do that, and now I am ready to finish the job. So I guess the therapy helped me to be compassionate and caring with my selves, accepting and non-judgemental, forgiving, loving... all those things she was for us, that we had never experienced in life before. She taught me how to be that for us. It wasn't a direct teaching. I don't believe she ever set out to 'teach Luce how to be compassionate' or whatever. I don't believe that was ever a 'goal' of therapy. We didn't have goals as far as I know. We just had us - fractured pieces of a broken human being - and her, one who had had a few breaks of her own but was healing up okay. She taught me by doing it, by being it.

And I believe that is about as 'specific' as I can get.