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Hi Reader,

Over the years, my clients have shared hundreds of stories about the poor experiences they’ve had while going to therapy to address their business or personal challenges.

I’ve also experienced more frustration than enlightenment while working with therapists. I want results asap, but usually I'm just asked to tell the same stories and I'm told to be patient.

The primary problem is that the type of training provided to the majority of well-intentioned psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and social workers is outdated and can prolong pain rather than heal it.

Here’s an example. A woman went to a therapist to heal from a series of traumas she’d endured. This woman was bright, successful, and had done a lot of personal work on herself, but she still felt stuck.

Her therapist instructed her to write down on paper an inventory of every painful event she’d ever experienced. She turned in one page during the following session. The therapist looked at it and said, “This isn’t enough. Mine was ten pages.”

For a client already drowning in rumination, catastrophic thinking, and emotional overwhelm, this wasn’t therapeutic; it was re-traumatizing (according to the client). Instead of helping her regulate, reframe, or resolve the pain, the therapist unknowingly encouraged her to dig deeper and reinforce the very neural patterns that were keeping her stuck.

And to be clear: This isn’t the therapist’s fault. This is a training issue.

The Problem Isn’t Therapists: It’s the Model They Were Taught

I spent seven years in college and graduate school studying clinical psychology. 33 psychotherapy courses in all.

Out of those, only one class provided tools I still use today, and it was considered “controversial” because the professor taught the basics of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), which is not part of the traditional clinical psychology curriculum.

And that’s the problem: Most psychotherapy training programs heavily emphasize analysis, diagnosis, and talking about the problem, but provide little instruction on rapid, experiential, belief-level interventions that actually solve the issues.

As a result, many therapists unintentionally reinforce rumination (the #1 predictor of depression). Clients can spend years rehearsing the narrative rather than changing the meaning. Sessions can become emotionally exhausting rather than empowering. Healing is often conceptual, not experiential.

In the simplest terms: Talking about your problems, or understanding how they developed, doesn't solve them.

Numerous non-degreed coaches are also missing the mark with the various ‘alternative healing therapies’ that exist today, many of which do absolutely nothing to modify behavior or belief systems.

Therapy and coaching can absolutely be life-changing. But if we’re honest about the data, the gaps are hard to ignore. Numerous people admit to 'trying everything' to experience relief to no avail.

Here’s What the Research Shows

1. Rumination makes symptoms worse, and many therapy techniques trigger rumination. Meta-analyses on depression and anxiety consistently show that repetitive negative thinking is a strong causal contributor to emotional suffering.

When clients spend session after session rehashing trauma without resolving it, their neural pathways for fear, shame, and helplessness deepen. The brain becomes more efficient at producing the pain.

How many couples have you heard about that went to marriage counseling and their relationship actually improved? Most admit that it caused them to argue more.

This is why:

1. Insight alone does not create transformation. Clients often leave therapy with an understanding of why they feel the way they do… but still feel that way. This is known in the literature as the “insight-action gap.”
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   Understanding the pattern ≠ eliminating the pattern.
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2. The average time to see meaningful improvement in traditional psychotherapy is long: months to years. Meanwhile, experiential, belief-focused modalities (OBA™ (One Belief Away method, hypnotherapy, EMDR, somatic therapies) often produce measurable changes in minutes to hours, not months.
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3. A large percentage of clients drop out before receiving meaningful benefits. Studies show 47–57% of clients discontinue therapy early, primarily because:

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“It isn’t helping.”
“I feel worse after sessions.”
“I keep talking about the same problems.”
“Nothing is changing.” My therapist listens but doesn’t provide any tools.

These aren’t client failures, as some therapists might suggest. Instead, they are methodological limitations.

Where Traditional Therapy Falls Short

Therapists are often compassionate, caring, and committed professionals. But they’re working within a system that…

• Under-trains them in subconscious change work
• Over-emphasizes intellectual analysis over emotional resolution
• Teaches ‘processing’ trauma but not neutralizing it
• Frames healing as slow and incremental rather than rapid and experiential

Most therapists were never shown how to:

1. Identify the core unconscious belief driving the suffering
2. Deactivate the emotional charge around trauma
3. Install new empowering beliefs
4. Create rapid, lasting state changes
5. Help clients stop self-sabotage at the identity level

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This is why they often default to what they were taught: “Tell me more about the trauma.” “Write it all down.” “Let’s explore it deeper.”

But neuroscience now shows us something critical: You cannot heal a trauma by rehearsing it. You heal it by transforming it. People want emotional freedom, confidence, peace, closure, breakthroughs, rapid relief, and sustainable change. Not 200 hours of paying to talk about issues when it's all you do in your head outside of therapy!

Why Belief-Change Methods Like OBA™ Are the Next Evolution

The One Belief Away™ Method is built on two ideas that the traditional model overlook:

Unconscious beliefs, not events, keep suffering ongoing. Changing the belief changes everything—fast.

Instead of retraumatizing clients or deepening rumination, OBA™ isolates the root belief in minutes, upgrades it, experientially releases emotion at a subconscious level, installs new, empowering neural pathways, and produces results most clients describe as “instant relief.”

It’s not “digging”—it’s disentangling.
It’s not “processing”—it’s upgrading.
It’s not years of coping—it’s minutes to breakthroughs.

The only thing that's worse than most therapy is REHAB. But that's for another time.

If you enjoy going in circles and paying strangers to be a friend, therapy can be a great option.

If, however, you want (or need) serious breakthroughs and continual support, use this link to schedule a free One Belief Away consultation.

Whether you wish to upgrade your habits, feel more confident and focused, or take your success to the next level, we can and will help you succeed!

:) Tim

Tim Shurr, MA
Peak Performance Mind Architect
Co-Star of Zero Limits
Bestselling Author, One Belief Away!
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