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There are many therapists doing greater than ‘hand-holding’
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There are many therapists doing greater than ‘hand-holding’

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Last updated: October 1, 2025 4:50 pm
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Oct. 1, 2025 8 AM PT

To the editor: Visitor contributor Jonathan Alpert’s op-ed overgeneralizes relating to the state of psychological well being therapy (“AI remedy isn’t getting higher. Therapists are simply failing,” Sept. 30). After all there are some dangerous therapists as there dangerous surgeons and dangerous attorneys. Nevertheless, there are numerous wonderful therapists doing extra than simply listening to their sufferers.

I’m a licensed psychologist in California and have utilized cognitive behavioral remedy for nearly 50 years. CBT is an evidenced-based remedy that’s extensively taught in graduate faculties. Listening to sufferers is in fact essential, however it isn’t the one factor that well-trained therapists do. I educate my sufferers expertise to beat their fears, cease having panic assaults and cut back or remove obsessive-compulsive signs. Sufferers learn to problem their irrational pondering.

I, and my CBT-trained colleagues, should not within the “enterprise {of professional} hand-holding” as indicated by Alpert. What we as professionals must do is to show customers the way to establish competent therapists and never flip individuals away from looking for the assistance they want.

Gerald Tarlow, Santa Monica

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To the editor: Glorious piece by Alpert on the generally dangerous penalties of psychotherapy that doesn’t transcend empathy and validation. Happily, cognitive behavioral remedy has, for a lot of many years, targeted on the type of lively, problem-solving and sometimes confrontative methods that encourage individuals to face their fears and study resilience and adaptability. I educate each my medical psychology college students and my sufferers the significance of the traditional Chinese language knowledge, “Go straight to the center of hazard, for there you will see that security.”

Gerald C. Davison, Los Angeles
This author is a professor of psychology at USC.

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