If you’re looking for therapy, you need to see that some therapies are better than others. Let me give you some “bullet points” on what I believe is effective therapy:
• its pragmatic rather than ideological
• it examines life on its totality rather than focusing exclusively on your addiction, pathology, or presenting problem
• it emphasizes natural processes of life, such as building on your individual strengths and resources in your social environment
• it works by strengthening the foundations of your life rather than quarantining you in groups of fellow sufferers
• it’s geared towards concrete results rather than putting a “label” on you
• its a values-based, nondisease approach to accomplish your life goals as you cope with your self and life’s challenges