In honor of National Psychotherapy Day, I must beat the drum for one of the best known forms of treatment for virtually any mental illness or mental health concern — psychotherapy.
It’s a drum I’ve happily been beating since I went to grad school in the early 1990s. There I learned about the decades’ worth of research into the effectiveness of psychotherapy for virtually any disorder. Since then, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen — psychotherapy works!
And now with the implementation of the mental health parity act and the Affordable Care Act, psychotherapy will become even more affordable to anyone who wants to give it a try. So why not try it?