It helped me in a lot of ways...first it made me feel less weird...finding out I was psychotic was totally disturbing but we talked about people without psych conditions who hear voices etc...it made me way less concerned that normal people were hallucinating too.

I also hadn't thought about doing things that block the voices...I had no idea that they could be blocked...certainly putting a pillow over my head had no impact. But I found this that worked and they are different for everyone.

We also spent some time analyzing what stressors I had before my first break and found a pattern of strong social anxiety so we spent some time dealing with that and it sounds kind of silly how to make friends etc. ie how to interact and be around people without overwhelming stress.

Basically I went in on an effective dose of meds but was still hearing voices by the end I was no longer hallucinating at all and now 3 years later I'm off meds entirely which I attribute at least in part to cbt helping me regulate stress from work etc.