Great post @abigail-dantes. We really need more awareness to psychotherapy and how it works. By the way, there is a fourth type of psychotherapy! ;) Relational-Historic Psychology, started by Lev Vygotsky, a russian psychologist interested mainly in the origins of our superior nervous functions. The psychotherapy model is based on the fact that those functions, necessary for our individual growth, have its origins on the first relations the child has right before birth. She has inate iniciatives searching for a respondant caretaker that will start shaping her human brain :) If that pattern is interrupted, she will start having difficulty adjusting into our chaotic world! In therapy, the psychologist functions as that first caretaker, starting re-shaping the person's brain into a more meaningful one, in order to a better adjustment that makes sense to that person :) This therapy is not as well-known as the other three probably because the other three have their basis in a more scientific pattern, better accepted by the society. But it is being well applied in some psychology communities in Portugal and Brazil, and well studied in Russia. Sorry for the lecture! :D But had to share this also!