If CBT Feels Shallow, Look at the Manual. Then Look at the Therapist Using It.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is frequently criticized for focusing too much on symptom checklists, thought records, coping skills, and changing negative thinking while avoiding the more complicated questions that people bring into psychotherapy. These include questions about meaning, responsibility, purpose, loss, freedom, mortality, and how to live in a world that does not always provide clear answers. There is some legitimacy to these criticisms when we consider how CBT is often practiced. However, the problem is not necessarily with the cognitive behavioral model itself. Much of the problem comes from how that model has been simplified and how therapists are trained to use it.
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