My experience w/CBT was mostly negative. My tdoc seemed to view *everything* I felt as a distortion, and it felt really invalidating. And he did come at me with workbook and breathing and mindfulness exercises, all of which I'd seen before and felt like were a waste of my in-session time. Plus patients with my personality traits (subclinical obsessive-compulsive personality (NOT OCD but OCDP)) have been shown not to respond well to CBT - we tend to feel bossed around and controlled, which is exactly how I felt. Also when I talked about painful incidents from my past, the guy mostly said nothing other than, "Let's get back on track." Ugh.

All of this is so individual - what one person finds helpful, another may not; and a tdoc that is helpful to one person may not help you, etc. Personally, I ran away screaming to psychodynamic therapy, which I love, and haven't looked back.