Talk therapy gives you a witness and a vocabulary. CBT gives you tools for conscious thought patterns. RTT® works at the subconscious level where the original beliefs were installed — addressing root cause rather than managing symptoms. There is no hierarchy: the right modality depends on what your nervous system needs in this season of your life. I want to begin by saying clearly: this is not a comparison designed to diminish any approach. Talk therapy and CBT have helped enormous numbers of people. Many of the women who come to me have been in both, sometimes for years, and have benefitted from them in real ways. The question is not which of these is better . The question is which one does what — and how to know which is the right next step for where you actually are. What talk therapy and CBT do well Traditional psychotherapy gives you something almost no other space in modern life of