[whamlastxmas]

Alternatively, professional help can also sometimes be tremendously unhelpful.

[j_s]

If professional help isn't helping, find another professional.

This is actually a real problem when people don't move on when things aren't working, because they assume they alone are the problem rather than in combination with the provider.

Different approaches work differently for different people and it makes sense to try more than one.

[adamc]

This. In my experience, they are all over the map -- some are great, some are not useful.