Ideally therapy is to help you find and open the right metaphorical door to help you on the path to achieving your goal. Sometimes people can't discover the right path themselves or the root of the problem they're trying to solve and good therapists help to identify where problems might stem from, or ask you the right questions to get you thinking about your path in a different way or from a different perspective, to try to shed some light on the next best step to take for your own journey