I also really dislike CBT. The first therapist I ever saw (only for 3-4 sessions so I don't even count him as an actual ex-therapist) was a CBT therapist. I was in my early 20s, and had I started therapy for real back then, my life could have been so different. But the CBT was so useless and stupid that I quit after 3-4 sessions and didn't attempt therapy again for years.

I also think CBT can be learned from workbooks if you're interested in learning it. So the therapist is basically pointless and extraneous under those circumstances.