Calilady, for me it has worked. I've had a very close relationship with my T for five year - close in the terms given above, entirely therapeutic etc. We've been doing schema therapy for five years. It has entirely transformed my life. I feel better in ways that I never knew it was possible to feel better in, because I had always assumed that those awful feelings were the feelings of being alive.

The thing about the relationship as discussed in my previous post, has been difficult and painful at times, but overall a very very good and amazingly healing experience. We have had arguments, including when I get upset and say this is just for the money, you don't really care, etc. But T has stuck with me patiently through thick and thin. We've both stuck with it. Truly, this therapy has changed my life for the better and I can envisage not going one day as well.