Psychotherapy Works?

It is dangerous for me to say that psychotherapy doesn't work; as a psychologist myself, it would be anti-advertising, but I would like to hand out a few tips before someone join a long and expensive treatment as psychotherapy.

First of all, not all clients will work with any psychotherapist. I'm not pointing only the differences among Psychologists theoretical approaches, but also the feeling between the client and the Psychologist. Have you ever met a person and you just don't like her, without any explainable reason? Well... that also happens in Psychotherapy. If you look at you Psychologist and just don't like him, as a person, your psychotherapy is a failure from the very beginning. You should thank for the Psychologist's time and search for another one. Psychotherapy success depends, at least in 50%, in the personal bond between the professional and the client. There must be an emotional connection between the two of them, or else the Psychotherapist will always be just a weird stranger in which the patient won't rely more than in a cab driver.

Second; Usually, the smarter the person, the harder will be Psychotherapy. I know that is rude for me to say that the easier treatments are for the stupid, but reality doesn't diverge much from that. Intellectualized people will get into therapy as the last resource, because they normally believe that they are able to solve any problem on their own. When they get to the Psychologist, they already tried to analyze themselves and their problems one hundred times, and developed many theories and concepts, in which they will utter mostly believe, and that probably will be very wrong. The Psychologist will need many sessions just to deconstruct these theories and concepts before starting any effective treatment.