The success or effectiveness of psychotherapy relies on your willingness to be open to the process and be honest about what you’re feeling. It also depends on the dynamics of the patient-therapist relationship.

Talk therapy, also known as psychotherapy, is what mental health professionals use to communicate with their patients. The purpose of talk therapy is to help identify issues causing emotional distress.

Like other forms of pop psychology,[15] therapy speak can result in miscommunication.[18][16] When people use the same word to mean different things, they may have difficulty understanding each other.[3] For example, someone might talk about trauma bonding, thinking that it's the emotional bond between survivors of a shared experience; the actual meaning is the emotional attachment of abuse victims to their abusers.[12][19] Using the word to refer to a relationship between abuse survivors will confuse people who believe it refers to an abuser–victim relationship, and vice versa. Therapists may deal with this by asking the speaker to define the word or explain it in more detail.[3][12][14] It also impairs communication by substituting a superficial judgement for clear communication.[19]

Therapy speak is the incorrect use of jargon from psychology, especially jargon related to psychotherapy and mental health.[1] It tends to be linguistically prescriptive and formal in tone.[2] Therapy speak is related to psychobabble and buzzwords.[3][4][5] It is vulnerable to miscommunication and relationship damage as a result of the speaker not fully understanding the terms they are using, as well as using the words in a weaponized or abusive manner.[4][6] Therapy speak is not generally used by therapists during psychotherapy sessions.

Psychotherapy changes the brain

integration is what people are seeking that's why they're coming to you um they want they often people will seek me out because nothing else seems to have helped all the talk therapy all the Psychotherapy all the things that they've tried not that they are still in being influenced by the patterns that are affecting them uh so we we call this notion the integration imperative

second one would be moving into the emotional body

Instead of waiting for a magic fairy to appear and eliminate your problem so that you can enjoy life again, you might want to start adding those little positive events back onto your agenda despite the problem still being present

If you need to imagine in concrete detail how you would notice that a problem disappeared, you are challenged to leave vague descriptions like “I’ll be happy”, “I’ll be less annoyed” behind.Vagueness in the end is a cognitive avoidance mechanism. It is easy to ruminate on general emotions and thoughts but very hard to imagine concrete outcomes and changes. We would rather not face precise thoughts, emotions or memories because they can be painful. Better to stay at a safe but vague distance.

Rather than defining the problem — which is hard — you are invited to define the change you would like to experience. It is a bit like reverse engineering.