Psychoanalytic psychotherapy. CBT wasn't my thing at all, so I'm definitely staying away from that and other behavioral approaches in the future. I've had other therapists who said they were psychodynamically oriented who were more eclectic/all-over-the-place theoretically than my current therapist, who specifically says that even when he's not doing full psychoanalysis, he's still taking an analytic approach. It's working well so far--the fact that he's very grounded in a certain set of theories hasn't translated to a general lack of flexibility or responsiveness the way I was afraid it could. On the contrary, I've found this approach to be usefully flexible and individualized in a way that promotes growth and progress.
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