The Emotional Brain versus the Intellectual Brain

I have been a cognitive behavioral therapist since I started in this field and I am proud to say that I was trained at Assumption College, which also houses the Aaron T. Beck Institute in the US. I have worked on many aspects of CBT since I started being interested in psychology. I am, however, open to different ways of working with different theories. While I do not necessarily consider myself eccletic, I do embrace several types of counseling theories, including humanistic, behavioral, psychoanalytic, and gestalt. One thing that is not ways considered in counseling is the biological aspect of our bodies. One of the things I usually remind people is that the two spheres of our brain work differently and sometimes does not communicate efficiently.
It is believed that the left side of the brain is the "logical" side, the sides that uses logic, mathematical skills as well as verbal skills. The right side of the brain is considered the "emotional" side, where creativity, emotions, and imagination takes place. A few observations here: our language skills are in the right side of the brain  so it can explain why sometimes, it is hard to put into words how we feel. That is also probably why our language is more simple when emotions are "making" us talk. It also explains why, when we are in our "right" mind, we might actually be more emotional than logical! But I digress.
I have encountered multiple times in my sessions people telling me that they "know" and understand why things need to be a certain way but that they cannot feel it. An example is when we know a person is bad fr us "logically" but we cannot separate ourselves emotionally. It is a difficult process. That is why people develop strange attachment to "bad people" in their lives: they know it is not logical but it feels good. We do not always process logic and emotions at the same time and when you know that they are located in different hemispheres, it kind of makes sense.
Now let's add gender differences into that. At the risk of sounding "sexist", here is another biological fact (although disputed in recent years, including one meta-analysis): The Corpus Collosum, the bundle of nerves that lies between the right side of our brain and the left side has been found in some studies to be thicker or heavier in females than males. This could explain why some women tend to be able to process information both on an emotional level, as well as a logical level more effectively than men. As an observer, I find that men tend to be "over-logical" on certain things and "over-emotional" on others. More often, men will tell you how they feel and will struggle to shift even if you present logical facts. It seems to also hold true, in my opinion, on logic. A man will logically make sense of a problem and will be able to remove themselves emotionally from that decision. Women tend to balance these two things better, however, I also find that the examples I gave about men is not unheard of for women also. I think it also goes back to the fact that an emotionally charged subjects remains emotionally charged and it is sometimes harder to find the logic behind it. As you can see, biologally also plays a big role in our mental health.
I guess that is why I embrace CBT: it tries to make sense of our emotions. A balancing act that is not easy for anyone.