How Many Theories Does It Take to Miss the Point
How many talking therapies do we need before we admit…
The problem might not be the modality –
but what we believe healing requires?
There are now over 500 different types of talking therapies, and every year, new modalities emerge, often renamed versions of old ones – rebranded with certifications, acronyms, frameworks, and ‘evidence-based’ claims.
Some are helpful, Mostly they are all well-meaning, but based on a fundamental false and misunderstood assumption about being human.
So let’s be honest, if talking was enough, we’d be healed by now.
The rise of modalities hasn’t solved the crisis, people are still stuck, still relapsing, still labelled, and still learning about healing while never experiencing it.
Complexity has become the mask for insecurity, when results are poor, we add more steps, more terms and more layers.
As if healing lives in intellectual mastery or clinical technique, but healing isn’t a concept, it’s not a method or a protocol.
It’s a fundamental shift in how we meet ourselves, in embodied awareness first then in presence and safety.
In the sea of 500+ modalities…
Who’s regulating this?
Who’s measuring outcomes beyond symptom reduction?
Who’s asking whether the therapist has actually healed themselves?Because if the industry is just passing pain between people with better vocabularies, we’re not in the business of healing – we’re in the business of performing it.
So what actually helps?
Often it’s not the tools – it’s the who.
– The person
– The space created
– The level of safety
And the ability to meet what hurts without needing to fix it
Not just in theory, but in the body, in the now.
So, I’m curious…
Have you ever felt worse after therapy – or more confused after learning another modality?
Let’s talk about it ⬇️