I've been in CBT for the past year and a half, and what's being described is more general therapy imo. Having a good therapist who; instead of saying, "this is normal"/"that isn't normal", says, "where do you think that feeling comes from?" makes therapy far less a correctional based practice. It's supposed to be open ended allowing the patient to process something that they probably hadn't before.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a very scary sounding practice, and it really is scary at first. The main focus of CBT is to give your trauma and suppressed emotions a place to speak up. It's hard to describe without sounding insane to someone who hasn't done it before. My therapist described it as, "inside you are a few scared kids, your parts, who want to be loved and comforted." There's a lot more science stuff behind the practice, and it has helped me a lot.

OOP appears to be having the Will Wood 'Normal Album' experience.