Not everything is only about Harry, even if it might also apply to him.
According to The Sun, Kate replied: “Talking therapies don’t work for some people, they’re not for everybody. It’s so important to have a range of therapies.”
She added: “Everyone is talking a lot more about mental health.
“There have often been negative connotations around it. But if we get across that there are these more positive spaces and experiences out there, then we are changing how we talk about it.”
This is absolutely true and important to highlight. Therapy should be tailored to the type of trauma and/or mental health difficulties as well as the individual person. (Kate will be repeating what experts have told her as she is in a position to amplify their voices, not simply making things up.)
In this country we often give just 6 sessions of talking therapy with someone under-qualified and under-experienced and expect it to help, or not help even, but rather it is seen to be sufficient to tick the box of having offered treatment, regardless of whether that ‘treatment’ is inadequate or unsuitable.
Unquestioning validation or affirmation is dangerous and is the given by the type of person who is wholly unfit to be a therapist. Sadly there are many ways to be unfit, even if people think their heart is in the right place.