I tried going to a therapist...it was a complete waste of time...your experience may be different though. It is probably worth a try, but IT won't keep you sober, only a well established COMMITMENT will get you through the tuff times, at least for me. AVRT calls it a 'Big Plan'. It helped me a lot. Do a web search for AVRT or Rational Recovery and read everything on the website. The book Rational Recovery is a great resource also. The guy is a whack-job in my opinion, but the concepts are incredibly on-point and insightful. AVRT and AA are supposedly diametrically opposed, but I have got a lot of good from both. Of course there are a lot of different people in AA, and there are undoubtedly some, or many, that will rub you the wrong way, but what else is to be expected from a bunch of Addicts? The main thing, at least it has been for me, is to have a strong personal COMMITMENT to get you through the inevitable rough going.