What kinds of clients would benefit most from cognitive-behavioral therapy?

What kinds of clients would benefit most from cognitive-behavioral therapy?

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Clients that are intelligent, and able to understand the concepts of the cognitive structuring really benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy. It's an interesting process to use with people who also are motivated to do some work on their own, because these are strategies they can take home and they can employ in their own life, everyday. There are workbooks out there that help them do it. Frankly, I'm a very eclectic therapist, so I use elements of cognitive-behavioral, elements of gestalt, elements of humanism, elements of psychoanalysis. Because I think you have to tailor-make a therapy program to the individual that you're working with. Some people are not comfortable doing much emotional work in front of another person.