Maybe we’re talking about the same thing here (I admit I don’t know the psyciatric definition of CBT) but I have assisted psychiatrists who were treating arachnophobes with exposure therapy. These days my help is not needed because they do it all with virtual reality. But back in the day, it was always possible to find a spider so very small that it wouldn’t trigger anyone’s fears. Then, once they were used to that one, we could move to one a little bigger, and so forth.
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