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Comparing therapy with a visit to the Wizard of Oz is dubious. After all, the wizard in the story was not a wizard at all, in fact he was a charlatan and eventually gets exposed as such.

There are things about ourselves that are difficult to observe from the inside. A person can know you for 30 seconds and see things about you that you might not figure out in 30 years.

The closest thing to free therapy is a really good book. Fewer people, and especially fewer men, are reading for leisure these days.

Starting therapy can be daunting for a lot of reasons, but I sometimes hear from clients that its hard to tell (or in some cases re-tell) your life story.

The deepest feelings should be addressed in the simplest language: You are not heavy. You are not a burden on the people who love you.

Being ‘addicted to love’ is not easy, especially when you’ve trained your brain that love comes out of a laptop or a phone screen.

In psychology, this idea is known as Internal Family Systems (IFS) theory. The basic premise is that human minds are made up of distinct ‘parts’.

If we accept my assertion that your therapist is not there to read minds or give advice, we are still left with the question of what they ARE doing.

If your therapist happens to be a mentalist like Derren Brown or an X-man like Charles Xavier, you might have had the classic Hollywood experience of therapy.

On some corners of the internet, therapy has taken on an increasingly political meaning.

Popular fiction often contains deep psychological ideas and help us to explore them.