Why I don’t Practice “Evidence Based” Therapy

Rachel Gabrielle, MA, LMHC
3 min readMay 14, 2020

Time and time again, I’m doing good work with a client until their medical provider intervenes and tells them that CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is the only thing that works. Then the client comes to me, feeling duped, and asks why we are not doing CBT. I can’t even count the number of times a client’s primary care doctor or even their psychiatrist has undermined the therapeutic relationship or gains made…

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