by Dr. Burns | Jan 24, 2020 | Feeling Good Blog, Feeling Good Podcasts
Hi all,
I hope you can join Dr. Jill Levitt and me and the brilliant helpers from the Feeling Good Institute for a day of learning, fun, and connection on February 9th!
High Speed Methods to Reduce Resistance
and Boost Motivation
February 9, 2020
8:30 am-4:30 pm PST (11:30 am-7:30 pm EST)
Join us live online ($135) or in person ($195)
at The Creekside Inn, Palo Alto, CA
(in person includes free breakfast, lunch and schmoozing)
7 CE credits*
For more info or to register
This workshop is BRAND NEW. You will learn how to identify and reduce outcome and process resistance for depression (morning session) and anxiety disorders (afternoon session). This can lead to faster, better outcomes.
This is a perfect workshop for those new to TEAM as well as seasoned clinicians who want to hone their skills through. Both in-person and online participants will practice with personalized feedback throughout the day.
We consistently receive feedback that our daylong workshops are not only educational but also engaging, lively, and great opportunities for networking. Jill and I will use a combination of didactic teaching, live role plays, and breakout group practice to keep you interested and engaged all day long!
I believe that therapeutic resistance is by far the most important topic in psychotherapy. The possibilities for improving your clinical work are tremendous. I hope you can join us! You’ll love it, and we’ll really enjoy hanging out with you, too!
David Burns, MD
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Coming on May, 17th, 2020–
The Cognitive Distortion Starter Kit:
How to Crush Negative Thoughts
TEAM-CBT includes more than 100 powerful techniques to change the distorted thoughts that trigger negative emotions. But what techniques should I select for my patient who feels depressed, anxious, or angry?
As you know, in my book, Feeling Good, I listed the ten most common cognitive distortions, like All-or-Nothing Thinking, Should Statements, Emotional Reasoning, and more, and you probably use that list all the time in your clinical work. But do you know which techniques work the best for each distortion?
Come to this workshop and find out! You’ll learn with tons of cool techniques you can use every day to boost your clinical effectiveness.
With Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt
May 17, 2020 | 7 CE hours. $135
by Dr. Burns | Jan 17, 2020 | Feeling Good Blog
Melting Away Resistance in TEAM-CBT
A practical 4-week online course for therapists with
Jill Levitt, Ph.D.
Highly Interactive
Live Online Training
Fridays 11 am – 12:45 pm PST (2 – 3:45 pm EST)
4 weeks starting 2/7/20
You’ve got powerful tools to help your patients change, and you see great progress with lots of your patients, but what about the times when you find yourself working harder than your patients? Do you like pushing your patients to change and watching them dig in their heels or subtly resist your help?
If you would like to try a different approach, join us and learn how to boost motivation and get unstuck with your most challenging patients using tools from TEAM-CBT developed by Dr. David Burns.
When: Four Fridays in a row starting 2/7/20 (11 am-12:45 pm PST / 2-3:45 pm EST)
Who: Mental health professionals and graduate students
Instruction level: beginner to advanced.
Instructor: Jill Levitt, Ph.D
Price: $240, Offers 7 CE Hours*
We will use a combination of live group didactic sessions together with practice and role play, with an emphasis on skill-building of powerful tools and techniques in a warm and supportive environment.
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Hungry for Some More Awesome Training?
I’ll be doing two cool one-day workshops on topics of enormous importance:
- How to overcome therapeutic resistance and boost patient motivation on February 9, 2020. This is the most important topic in all of psychotherapy, and the methods you will learn are innovative, surprising, and powerful. The focus will be on melting away therapeutic resistance in patients with depression (morning session) and anxiety disorders (afternoon).
- On May 17, 2020 we’ll show you the best techniques to smash each of the ten cognitive distortions first described in my book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy.
I’m thrilled to be joined at both workshops by my esteemed colleague, Dr. Jill Levitt. We love to teach together because it makes for a dynamic and fun dance of learning. If you’ve heard us before, you know that Jill is warm, brilliant, and incredibly clear, so you can really LEARN and master techniques that can transform your practice.
You can join both online from anywhere in the world, or join us in person in Palo Alto for free breakfast, lunch, and schmoozing! You’ll find the details below.
David
Coming Soon
High Speed Methods to Reduce Resistance
and Boost Motivation
This is the most important, and least understood, topic in the behavioral sciences. Nearly all therapeutic failure results from the failure to address resistance. Therapists do not understand what causes resistance or how treat it effectively.
Come to this workshop and learn how to melt away resistance for incredibly high-speed recovery!
With Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt
Feb 9. 2020 | 7 CE hours. $135
The Cognitive Distortion Starter Kit:
How to Crush Negative Thoughts
TEAM-CBT includes more than 100 powerful techniques to change the distorted thoughts that trigger negative emotions. But what techniques should I select for my patient who feels depressed, anxious, or angry?
As you know, in my book, Feeling Good, I listed the ten most common cognitive distortions, like All-or-Nothing Thinking, Should Statements, Emotional Reasoning, and more, and you probably use that list all the time in your clinical work. But do you know which techniques work the best for each distortion?
Come to this workshop and find out! You’ll learn with tons of cool techniques you can use every day to boost your clinical effectiveness.
With Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt
May 17, 2020 | 7 CE hours. $135
by Dr. Burns | Dec 21, 2019 | Feeling Good Blog
Starts in 2 weeks!
Mike Christensen’s
Comprehensive TEAM-CBT Training for Therapists
Based on the Work of Dr. David Burns
Mondays starting 1/6/20
(4 – 5:45 pm PST; 7 – 8:45 pm EST)
21 CE hours, $720
Sign up soon before this course sells out!
- Intimate live online learning environment
- Course uses a combination of live group didactic sessions together with practice and role play, with emphasis on skill building of CBT therapy tools and techniques
- Completion of this course meets criteria for TEAM-CBT Therapist Level 1 Certification, or partial criteria for Level 2 or 3 Certification
- Affordable online training, less than $35/hr for live, interactive, professional training
Free training video–
“Mike Christensen is one of the rising stars in TEAM-CBT. He is a terrific teacher and therapist, and a very compassionate individual! Highly recommended!”
David D. Burns, MD, Author of “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”
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I also have two tremendous one-day workshop scheduled with my colleague, Dr. Jill Levitt–
Coming up in 2020
High Speed Methods to Reduce Resistance
and Boost Motivation
This is the most important, and least understood, topic in the behavioral sciences. Nearly all therapeutic failure results from the failure to address resistance. Therapists do not understand what causes resistance or how treat it effectively.
Come to this workshop and learn how to melt away resistance for incredibly high-speed recovery!
With Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt
Feb 9. 2020 | 7 CE hours. $135
The Cognitive Distortion Starter Kit:
How to Crush Negative Thoughts
TEAM-CBT includes more than 100 powerful techniques to change the distorted thoughts that trigger negative emotions. But what techniques should I select for my patient who feels depressed, anxious, or angry?
As you know, in my book, Feeling Good, I listed the ten most common cognitive distortions, like All-or-Nothing Thinking, Should Statements, Emotional Reasoning, and more, and you probably use that list all the time in your clinical work. But do you know which techniques work the best for each distortion?
Come to this workshop and find out! You’ll learn with tons of cool techniques you can use every day to boost your clinical effectiveness.
With Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt
May 17, 2020 | 7 CE hours. $135
Coming this summer!
The Annual South San Francisco Intensive!
July 6 – 9, 2020
It’s Going to Be Awesome!
Videos, Live Demonstrations
Small Group Practice with Personal Feedback and Mentoring,
and Chances for Personal Work and Healing
Ultra-Rapid TEAM-CBT for Depression and Anxiety Disorders
Registration link and details will be posted soon
by Dr. Burns | Oct 28, 2019 | Feeling Good Blog
The Incredible Atlanta Intensive
Is Just Around the Corner—November 4 – 7, 2019!
With David D. Burns, MD
The Atlanta intensive is just days away, and there are still a few slots open! If you need 32 CE credits, or want to learn state of the art therapy techniques for depression and all of the anxiety disorders, you might want to consider this amazing workshop.
You’ll work incredibly hard for long hours, but this training will change your life. You’ll discover that incredibly rapid recovery from depression and anxiety is now possible, and I’ll show you how to use these techniques this with your most difficult and challenging patients.
This will be my first east coast intensive in more than 25 years. I’m older now, and less excited by airports! But it’s always fun teach in Atlanta.
The intensives are usually mind-blowing. You’ll probably experience personal enlightenment, with freedom from feelings of self-doubt and insecurity. You’ll also learn many incredible therapy techniques that can transform the way you do therapy. This workshop will provide you with greater feelings of satisfaction in your clinical work and in your personal life as well.
The registration website has been impaired, and is now being fixed. Please persist if you’re having trouble with registration. Or, call Courtney Kendler right away. She can register you personally if needed: 1-248-978-7787.
I hope to see you in Atlanta!
Warmly,
David D. Burns, MD
This will be my first east coast intensive in more than 20 years! If YOU can join me, it will be over the top!
This workshop has been approved for Levels 1 through 3 TEAM-CBT Certification
and is suitable for novice as well as highly experienced therapists and coaches. Graduate students are also welcome.
David
Participant Feedback at the SF Summer Intensive
- Awesome
- The intervention on anxiety was so inspiring. Very powerful . . . a healing and amazing experience!
- I loved the Stage Fright demonstration. The stage was full of such beautiful people. I love your spontaneity, David, normalizing it with your nightmarish experience. Yeah! Celebrate!
- Such a safe environment. Vicarious healing. Awesome!
- Superb at all levels. Dr. Burns’ brilliance shines through even in the difficult moments.
- The unplanned and spontaneous anxiety (fear of public speaking) group was a real WOW!
- It was beautiful!
- It was Fantastic to see all the people with public speaking anxiety get up on stage. Fantastic! They looked at the fear monster in the face and realized it has no teeth!!
- The Externalization of Voices role-play was awesome.
- Love the sensibility of joyous failure!
- Fantastic training!
- Amazing!
- David’s integration of philosophy and spirituality into the TEAM-CBT model—absolutely brilliant! An amazing experience!
- Today was very emotional for me. I didn’t have the courage to get up on stage and speak about my public speaking anxiety, but it was a wonder to watch the other participants share their own struggles. It brought tears to my eyes. Wonderful!
- During the practice with the Externalization of Voices, I experienced a shift that I did not think would be possible.
- Demos, role-plays. Helpers were fantastic, supportive. I learned a lot. Lots of tears. Facing my demons. Thank you, Dr. Burns!
- I think these ideas are light years better than most things that typically happen in therapy! Very motivating!
- We saw healing happen before our very eyes!
- Wow, fabulous! To go through the whole exercise was rewarding. The helpers were awesome. Thank you, Dr. Burns, for your awesomeness and helpful, brilliant mind.
- WOW WOW WOW! No words needed. AMAZING! Thank you for this experience!
- Thrilling!
- Superb!! Thank you, Dr. Burns!
- Our helper was awesome. Loved the night session! A+!
by Dr. Burns | Oct 18, 2019 | Feeling Good Blog
High-Speed Treatment of Depression and Anxiety Disorders
The Incredible Atlanta Intensive
Is Coming Soon—November 4 – 7, 2019!
With David D. Burns, MD
Join me in Atlanta and learn how TEAM-CBT can produce extremely rapid and lasting changes for your clients—and for you! You will practice and master powerful new therapy techniques that will boost your effectiveness in the treatment of depression and all of the anxiety disorders.
This workshop will be experiential. You will have the chance to practice many innovative techniques in small groups and get immediate feedback from me and my colleagues so you can refine your skills. You’ll also have the chance to work on your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt so you can leave this workshop on a high, with renewed confidence and excitement about your clinical work.
This dynamic workshop offers:
- Amazing TEAM-CBT techniques that will transform your approach to therapy.
- Innovative resistance-busting techniques to boost patient motivation and eliminate “yes-butting.”
- Live demonstrations and video clips from actual therapy sessions.
- Powerful Relapse Prevention Training for lasting results.
- Lots of fun and the chance to get some emotional refueling!
- Tons of CE credit–33 hours!
There will be two dynamic and inspiring evening sessions in addition to the four day sessions. You’ll work extremely hard and you’ll be exhausted at the end, but you’ll be feeling greater joy and happiness, with a new vision for life and clinical work.
The intensives are almost always the best workshops of the year, by far. I hope you can join us in Atlanta! But move fast if you’re interested, since the date is just around the corner!
This will be my first east coast intensive in more than 20 years! If YOU can join me, it will be over the top!
This workshop has been approved for Levels 1 through 3 TEAM-CBT Certification
and is suitable for novice as well as highly experienced therapists and coaches. Graduate students are also welcome.
David
Participant Feedback at the SF Summer Intensive
- Awesome
- The intervention on anxiety was so inspiring. Very powerful . . . a healing and amazing experience!
- I loved the Stage Fright demonstration. The stage was full of such beautiful people. I love your spontaneity, David, normalizing it with your nightmarish experience. Yeah! Celebrate!
- Such a safe environment. Vicarious healing. Awesome!
- Superb at all levels. Dr. Burns’ brilliance shines through even in the difficult moments.
- The unplanned and spontaneous anxiety (fear of public speaking) group was a real WOW!
- It was beautiful!
- It was Fantastic to see all the people with public speaking anxiety get up on stage. Fantastic! They looked at the fear monster in the face and realized it has no teeth!!
- The Externalization of Voices role-play was awesome.
- Love the sensibility of joyous failure!
- Fantastic training!
- Amazing!
- David’s integration of philosophy and spirituality into the TEAM-CBT model—absolutely brilliant! An amazing experience!
- Today was very emotional for me. I didn’t have the courage to get up on stage and speak about my public speaking anxiety, but it was a wonder to watch the other participants share their own struggles. It brought tears to my eyes. Wonderful!
- During the practice with the Externalization of Voices, I experienced a shift that I did not think would be possible.
- Demos, role-plays. Helpers were fantastic, supportive. I learned a lot. Lots of tears. Facing my demons. Thank you, Dr. Burns!
- I think these ideas are light years better than most things that typically happen in therapy! Very motivating!
- We saw healing happen before our very eyes!
- Wow, fabulous! To go through the whole exercise was rewarding. The helpers were awesome. Thank you, Dr. Burns, for your awesomeness and helpful, brilliant mind.
- WOW WOW WOW! No words needed. AMAZING! Thank you for this experience!
- Thrilling!
- Superb!! Thank you, Dr. Burns!
- Our helper was awesome. Loved the night session! A+!
by Dr. Burns | Oct 10, 2019 | Feeling Good Blog
Dear Colleague,
I just received an awesome article on antidepressants that my esteemed colleague, Professor Mark Noble, from the University of Rochester, sent to me. The authors seem to conclude that these drugs should not be prescribed for individuals struggling with depression! Although I have been leaning more and more strongly in this direction for decades, it is refreshing to see that some of the world’s top scientists have come to the same conclusion.
Check it out! Troubling, for sure, but super-important.
If you are interested in learning some powerful, drug-free treatment methods for depression and all of the anxiety disorders, my November 3 – 7 Atlanta intensive may be of interest to you. The intensives are the best psychotherapy training that I offer, and are tremendous opportunities for personal healing as well!
The intensive will feature powerful new TEAM-CBT techniques presented in a step-by-step way, with opportunities for small group practice with immediate feedback and mentoring from me and a number of expert helpers, as well as dramatic videos and live demonstrations. You will work super hard, with two evening sessions in addition to the four day sessions, and you will emerge exhausted, but hopefully filled with joy, many new skills and insights, and a much deeper understanding of the sudden, dramatic and lasting changes that can happen in effective treatment–even WITHOUT drugs or lengthy treatment.
I know you’ll learn a lot and laugh a lot, too, and I have no doubt we’ll shed some tears together, too. Many people have felt the intensives are among the most rewarding training experiences they’ve experienced. So I hope YOU can join us in Atlanta!
David Burns (david@feelinggood.com)
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High-Speed Treatment of Depression
and Anxiety Disorders
A Four-Day TEAM-CBT Advanced Intensive
November 4 – 7, 2019
The Atlanta, Georgia Intensive
This will be my first East Coast Intensive in more than 25 years. l don’t travel to the east coast for teaching very often any more, as I just turned 77. But I’ve still got tons of energy and I still LOVE teaching, so I hope you can join us! David (AKA the elderly one)
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Participant Feedback from this year’s San Francisco Summer Intensive.
I will be presenting the same program in Atlanta.
- Awesome
- The intervention on anxiety was so inspiring. Very powerful . . . a healing and amazing experience!
- I loved the Stage Fright demonstration. The stage was full of such beautiful people. I love your spontaneity, David, normalizing it with your nightmarish experience. Yeah! Celebrate!
- Such a safe environment. Vicarious healing. Awesome!
- Superb at all levels. Dr. Burns’ brilliance shines through even in the difficult moments.
- The unplanned and spontaneous anxiety (fear of public speaking) group was a real WOW!
- It was beautiful!
- It was Fantastic to see all the people with public speaking anxiety get up on stage. Fantastic! They looked at the fear monster in the face and realized it has no teeth!!
- The Externalization of Voices role-play was awesome.
- Love the sensibility of joyous failure!
- Fantastic training!
- Amazing!
- David’s integration of philosophy and spirituality into the TEAM-CBT model—absolutely brilliant! An amazing experience!
- Today was very emotional for me. I didn’t have the courage to get up on stage and speak about my public speaking anxiety, but it was a wonder to watch the other participants share their own struggles. It brought tears to my eyes. Wonderful!
- During the practice with the Externalization of Voices, I experienced a shift that I did not think would be possible.
- Demos, role-plays. Helpers were fantastic, supportive. I learned a lot. Lots of tears. Facing my demons. Thank you, Dr. Burns!
- I think these ideas are light years better than most things that typically happen in therapy! Very motivating!
- We saw healing happen before our very eyes!
- Wow, fabulous! To go through the whole exercise was rewarding. The helpers were awesome. Thank you, Dr. Burns, for your awesomeness and helpful, brilliant mind.
- WOW WOW WOW! No words needed. AMAZING! Thank you for this experience!
- Thrilling!
- Superb!! Thank you, Dr. Burns!
- Our helper was awesome. Loved the night session! A+!
