Therapy is very expensive (many insurance companies only cover a minuscule amount of visits per time period), hard to access, has few options (for many people), and is exactly the type of thing you need to shop around in (like you need a therapist that is not only decent, but also cares about you (in a patient doctor sense) and communicates with you well).
More than that, even when that lines up, its nowhere near the nearly instant/fast or surefire process so many people imply it is online.
More than all of that, the idea that you need to go to therapy to learn something indicates that its not really actionable advice.
It’s abit like how saying the solution to having good politicians is to take the money out of politics.
We all know that, but the path to achieving it is clearly where the real difficulty is, and so the initial statement ends up not actually being useful to anyone, as it isnt what the actual goal is, and in this case, a psychologist might just have a different plan/words they use as the goal for you based on how they do things.
It’s an incredible amount of work to learn, but starting with therapy can be a good start.
Therapy is very expensive (many insurance companies only cover a minuscule amount of visits per time period), hard to access, has few options (for many people), and is exactly the type of thing you need to shop around in (like you need a therapist that is not only decent, but also cares about you (in a patient doctor sense) and communicates with you well).
More than that, even when that lines up, its nowhere near the nearly instant/fast or surefire process so many people imply it is online.
More than all of that, the idea that you need to go to therapy to learn something indicates that its not really actionable advice.
It’s abit like how saying the solution to having good politicians is to take the money out of politics.
We all know that, but the path to achieving it is clearly where the real difficulty is, and so the initial statement ends up not actually being useful to anyone, as it isnt what the actual goal is, and in this case, a psychologist might just have a different plan/words they use as the goal for you based on how they do things.
I do empathize, it’s certainly a position of privilege to have the time and resources available.
Not to mention trying to find time during their office hours where you can get out of work for an hour every week.