How To Make Sense Of Psychotherapy

With over 450 varieties of psychotherapy available, it’s unclear how anyone should navigate this inexplicable and often frighteningly unregulated market.

The School of Life’s resident psychotherapist Brett Kahr talks to faculty member and author Naomi Alderman about the secret worlds of psychotherapy.

Drawing on extensive personal and professional experience, they’ll describe what commonly happens in a therapy session, ask how much difference there is between one kind of therapeutic approach and another, and discuss how individuals can make informed decisions about whether therapy might prove useful to them or not.

This is an opportunity to ask frank questions - Should you tell your therapist everything? How much should you expect to pay? How long does it take before you start to ‘feel better’? Can you become too dependent on therapy? When can therapy go wrong? – and expect frank answers.