I am late to the party and you've found a therapist who might be a good fit.
But for me, what helped was trying different therapists and trying different modalities. CBT does not work for me. I'm an excellent thinker and I can play the game and nothing changes. I think CBT is often like this for smart people? IFS and EMDR helped. Just talking sometimes helps. Meditation and Reiki can help. DBT elements helped too, but I don't know if I would have ever handled a whole session of DBT.
Finding a smart, freshly trained or still teaching therapist is a good fit for me because they are applying all their best tools to me.
Sometimes I have spend a thousand I didn't have on therapy that didn't work, but at least I tried.
Last year I think I spent a lot of thousands on therapy that did work. And now I have a therapist I can contact for touch ups and check ins.
I am reading a book about feelings, and the author Tara Brach makes a terrible awful joke. The client returns and says "I thought this was going to make me feel better, I feel awful." The therapist responds "You are feeling better. You're better at feeling sad and mad and angry!". Apparently feeling these things is a good skill.