By Dr. Andrew Goldberg When I talk about helping people “be their own therapist,” I’m not talking about doing everything on your own or never needing help. I’m talking about learning how to understand yourself and respond to your life in a way that I’ve seen be helpful for many people. To make that idea clear, it helps to break it down into three parts: why people go to therapy, what therapy is actually doing, and what it can look like when it’s working. Why people go to ther