Pulling Back the Curtain: What Therapy Is, How it Works, and What to Expect

Therapy: what is it, really? What exactly does it “treat,” when emotions themselves feel so intangible and cloudy, a morass of intense but nonspecific sensations that just keep changing anyway…..? How is it that “talking” is what does the treating? And what is it that “therapists” know or have training in that qualifies and authorizes them to actually make something of this emotion morass to then bring us…..what? What are we supposed to expect from therapy anyway?!