We hear you. It’s incredibly hard to have blind faith in a person telling you what you should be doing to “get better.” The cool thing is therapists aren’t actually in the business of advice-giving. Think of therapy more as a safe space to work through things you are struggling with. I might help give you tools (or help fortify or identify existing strengths within you), but you actually do all the work. You might practice some things in this safe space we create together, within our therapeutic relationship, but then you alone go out into the world and hopefully use what you learned to strengthen your connections and relationships outside of therapy. In other words, I’m never giving you some exact blueprint for how to solve an issue. I’m helping you examine yourself and your life and relationships, I’m a sounding board, and I’m a place of trust and security.

(Self.com)