I've been with a cbt therapist now for a bit over 5 years, so I don't think of cbt as a short-term therapy at all. It has been through cbt that I've made the most progress in dealing with my thought processes and my feelings that result from them. I haven't seen that cbt limits the scope of what I work through in therapy at all. Instead, it is a way of looking at the vast scope of issues that I have to deal with with more rational, logical, healthy eyes.