Someone who works with a particular style of therapy. I’m gonna over simplify because this is a lemmy post not a classroom.

There’s psychodynamic therapy (think Freudian) where the therapist works out what’s wrong with you and tells you what you need to do to fix it.

There’s behavioural therapy (think CBT) where what you feel isn’t the issue, it’s about changing your behaviour to fix your life.

And there’s humanistic (think Carl Roger’s Person Centred, etc) which is about the therapist being an ally, working with awareness, support and warmth. They’re the most non judgmental, they’re the best for making changes at a deep level and they’re least likely to tell you what to do. Advice is not part of the work.

Almost all the reasons I hear for not going to therapy don’t apply to holistic therapy, only the medical approach.

Find a humanistic therapist if you want someone to support you rather than fix you.