As someone who is in therapy for quite some time and read quite a lot about psychology, I can please take any claims of "evidence"-based short-term therapy appr

As someone who is in therapy for quite some time and read quite a lot about psychology, I can please take any claims of "evidence"-based short-term therapy approach with gain of salt. Particularly, if it's a very short term manualized approach of therapy eg, CBT style therapy. Lots of research in CBT is plagued with abuse of statistics, manipulation of randomized controlled trials, sensalization, and over-hype. For the vast majority of time CBT is good for symptomp reduction and patients relapse frequently. Frankly, the depressed people I know in real life, I don't know how many of them would be benefitted by CBT style therapy. My own experience is it took me almost a year of therapy, reading psychology and philosophy, lots of self-relfection and going to dark places in my mind to see marked improvement in my depression. If you are suffering from depression, please give psychotherapy a try. It'd be hard, but it's worth it!