My T is pretty existential although I don’t recall him calling himself that. Imo he is pretty awesome. He does donthe affirmations BS with me and I don’t do well with them for different reasons.
As for CBT I have severe trauma. At first CBT seemed to help as it decreased the severity of the symptoms and then that T went “whelp, that’s the best you are capable of... see ya!”. I felt like there was more to healing so I kept searching. CBT has its place but it isn’t with me! My wounds festered and got worse under the bandaid of CBT. Now in trying to work with current T all the CBT crap is so automatic it is interfering with T’s ability to work with me.