[Allen Tice]

Eliza was a standard issue Rogerian therapist funneled through a thing that made her seem like a computer.

Rogerian therapy is one of the more effective approaches. Why?

Aha!
Largely, it is theorized, because it makes you actually listen to what you say and mull it over a few times. As a part of that, the nonverbalizing parts of your various hemispheres (wherever they are - right or left, up or down) are exposed to you as as outsider blabbering your highly sincere rubbish.

Then these nonverbal wigadoons of yours start firing their messages through your nervous wires to modify (maybe) that sincere blather and sincere behavior.

That's also why talking aloud to yourself isn't crazy. Unless, of course, there's a wire or a bug around.

Go, Turing, talk to Carl Rogers!