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Yes, and even if you do choose to get some help, you will still be doing at least 90 per cent of the work yourself! Self-help is the key to modern methods of helping people to change. That is not to say that professional therapists, like myself, have inadvertently worked ourselves out of a job! It’s just that our role and focus have changed. We aim to work in partnership with people. We try not to stand on pedestals, as symbols of perfect mental health. We allow ourselves to be seen as ‘real people’ with all the failings and imperfections which seem to go hand-in-hand with being human. We do not want to hide our knowledge and skills behind a cloak of mystique; we want to share these and admit our limitations.

Good therapy or counselling is not something that we passively receive and feel grateful for, it is two (or more) people working experimentally, and in partnership, towards a goal which we have set for ourselves, using techniques which we fully understand and have control over.

Another alternative is to join – or create – a self-help group. You can use this book and others, such as those recommended in the suggested Further Reading on here, to help you organize yourself.

Whichever method you use you can be sure that the self-help approach will prove to be a confidence booster in itself!