The only thing to add here is the value of the network you will build. It’s very easy for swes to forget that people connecting to people is how things happen. Just be careful around cost. Speaking from experience, having student loan debt changes the range of your vision.

Framing the practice of therapy as a space for the “self to run and exhaust itself” before becoming receptive to reframing is one of the more concise and clear explanations of what therapy can be.

What complicates the process is that language based thought and emotion run as a two way feedback loop, repetitive thoughts can create neurochemical repeating patterns which can change what someone is able to experience. In this way artifacts of language alone can have an immense amount of power no?