Pros and Cons of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy relatively short time, 8 to 12 sessions if the client cooperates completely. The skills you learn in CBT sessions can be used throughout your life in difficult times, even after therapy has ended (NHS Choices, 2010). Warren Mansell (2008a) states that CBT focuses more on how we find, see, interpret, think about and explain all events in the client's life taking into account all mental processes, especially at the conscious level. Unconscious aspects are also not ignored, but this type of therapy believes that it will be very effective if the client is helped to become aware of "their conscious experience of meaning creation" (Warren Mansel. 2008a, p. 19) . Saul McLeod (2008) presents four aspects that will make the CBT model a very powerful model: 1. Working with human thoughts can have two results: on the one hand, they helped us to develop and on the other hand, attract trouble. CBT tries to “attack” positive thoughts and make them more powerful than negative thoughts, which makes us unhappy, not happy..

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