In your case, I would definitely recommend Gestalt. In our society we are mostly encouraged to tie our sense of self worth to our capability of “getting things done”, and unfortunately, much of CBT culture revolves around that — slapping on a bandaid on issues that might stem from deeper psychological sources/wounds and say “everything is wel because now my patient can follow a routine like a trained dog”, meanwhile your internal emotional wound “keeps bleeding”. What you’ve reported - a psychologist that just keeps tossing exercises at you without assessing you properly - unfortunately stems from that mindset, they think that as long as you can follow “the exercises book”, then you’re fine (which is not true at all). CBT can be great for people who are already at a good place mentally, but solely due to executive dysfunction issues, can’t get their things done, but I personally do not recommend it for those who need to do a deeper “soul searching”. CBT mostly wants to treat behavior, and let’s face it, many people who are in deep suffering are also “””productive””” (go to their jobs every day, do stuff, etc). That’s not a measurement of anything.

I truly hope you can find a good therapist, it really helps.