Does therapy work?
There are a lot of ways to answer this question. There's a fairly large body of research that examines therapy outcomes (i.e., whether it "works" or not), and the factors that lead to successful therapy. When I have more time I'll write another post that goes into that research in more detail. For now, I want to address on a basic level this very common question, whether therapy works. The short answer is, yes, most of the time it does work in helping people feel better and/o
