After investigating a pretty wide spectrum of therapies and what-not, some of it by formal university study, I've concluded that they have to be seen in regard to a wider context which is covered by for example a psychologist called David Smail, another aspect of it by Victor Frankl, and another angle by the likes of so called Neuro Linguistic Programming. Which are easily Google-able.
Smail found in the Thatcherite 80s there was a clear rise in the numbers seeking psychiatry, and he traced this back to bedrock stuff that gives us the nourishment and resources we need for happy living and resilient living, able to stand the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune". If you have disposable money, a nice house, a family or partner, a job, a hobby, a decent diet etc, you will be happier and more resilient. In the 80s, life got tough and more people got sick. There are lots of factors, and they are like psychological vitamins that conventional psychologies disregard and don't understand. As I recall, one of his books is called
The Myth of Psychotherapy. A very good read.
There's a slightly upsetting but poetic moment in an uncharacteristic movie by David Lynch, the gentle and lovely
Straight Story. A driver ploughs into a beautiful deer on one of those long US desert highways, distraught that in such a large space it happens to her regularly and she has no choice because she has to travel that road to work. The old fella of the movie arrives at the scene on his lawnmower vehicle, to witness this:
Movie therapy.
Music therapy.
Romance therapy.
Flower, fragrance, poetry therapy, and watching the sun rise and set, therapy.
It's all "therapy", and the myth is that psychological so called expertise has cut up life and pinned it down into its various systems and methods.
People also have different constitutions, making them more or less disposed for resilience like whether you can, or cannot, lift 200 pounds, and there's nothing or very little that can be done about that.
