Hiya. I was seeing a CBT therapist and they introduced DBT in the region so she reccomended that I give it a shot. I didn't have a prior dx of CBT but she thought I could get some use from it anyway. And... I did! I guess it kinda does look like a 'boot camp' in some respects because of the skills group component and a very structured individual therapy component too lol. Is your therapist DBT trained, do you know? I would say that it would be nice if your CBT therapist was trained in DBT so she could see how you are going with implementing the skills learned in group and stuff like that, but I guess it isn't essential. You guys could both learn along together :-) It isn't that there is conflict exactly... (CBT is a modified form of DBT) it is just that the emphasis is different in CBT than it is in DBT. For example... There is a lot more validation rather than questioning of feelings and that might be just what you need so that you can become aware of your feelings and so that you can learn how to express them.

I think I get what you mean about emotional constipation. I found... That CBT brought that out in me because of all the questioning of my feelings and the focus on changing them all the time rather than simply acknowledging and accepting them.

I really got a lot out of DBT. I hope that you do too :-)