2/ More specifically: we assume no one fully knows their own heart and mind & there is value in greater self-knowledge ("shadow work"), we understand problems in the context of their developmental trajectories ("family of origin work"), and we understand how traumatic experience

3/ distorts & derails developmental trajectories, how it interacts w preexisting psychological conflicts & deficits, its aftereffects, and how to work with it in therapy, in the context of person's overall psychology.
None of these things are "special" kinds of work in therapy.

4/ These things are the bread & butter of what we do, day in and & out, in every therapy with every patient. They're also interwoven & inseparable—impossible to properly understand/address any of these things without addressing all
We call this work "psychotherapy"

5/ Perhaps more to the point, humans are not compartmentalized modules we can addressed separately. We are one human being. We cannot say, now we're doing "family of origin" work, now we're doing "shadow work," etc. It's all of a piece. We can pretend these are separate things

6/ and different therapeutic skills, but that's the point... we are pretending. Meaningful psychotherapy is never a game of let's pretend