How is therapy effective when you (typically) only talk for one hour per week?
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I am not any sort of expert on the subject, but my thought is this:
In our lives, every interaction is colored by the circumstances, stakes, and relationship between the two people. When you talk to friends, family, coworkers, etc. everything about your relationship frames and affects the way you interact. All that unspoken stuff is there constantly.
With a therapist, however, there is none of that real-life stuff. So you are free to communicate just for the sake of communicating. Without all the usual stressors, you have a greater chance of getting to purest truths of your feelings and perceptions.
It might only be an hour a week, but it’s an hour that’s totally unlike any other hour of talking you might get. Most people don’t get *any* of that kind of talking in their lives.
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