Coming in July! My annual Canadian summer intensive!
“Advanced Cognitive Therapy for
Depression and Anxiety Disorders”
Whistler, BC, Canada
July 3 – 6, 2018
This brief video will explain why you should attend!
For workshop description / registration details, click–Jack Hirose & Associates Inc.
Phone: 604.924.0296, Toll-free: 1.800.456.5424
You’ll LOVE this workshop and you’ll learn TONS of helpful techniques to treat depression, anxiety disorders, and habits and addictions.
You’ll have your evenings free to enjoy the beautiful Whistler countryside, and I will likely offer optional evening hikes as well, with opportunities for personal work and consultation.
You’ll learn how to heal your clients and your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt as well!
Mike Christensen and several others will be joining me at Whistler to help out with supervision of the small group exercises. Mike and I will also be doing a live therapy demonstration with an audience volunteer on the morning of day 2. Mike is a tremendous teacher and therapist, and a highly esteemed friend and colleague.
You’ll LOVE this workshop and you’ll learn TONS of powerful techniques to treat every type of anxiety:
Generalized Anxiety
OCD
PTSD
Phobias
Social Anxiety
Agoraphobia
Panic Disorder
and more
You’ll learn how to heal your clients and your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt as well!
Mike Christensen and several others will be joining me at both locations to help out with supervision of the small group exercises. Mike and I will also be doing a live therapy demonstration with an audience volunteer on the evening of day 1. This promises to be a highlight of the workshop!
In today’s podcast, we will illustrate the Devil’s Advocate Technique, another one of the role-playing techniques in TEAM-CBT. You can use this technique for any habit or addiction, such as:
Drug or alcohol abuse
Overeating / binge eating
Shopping addiction
Internet addiction
And procrastination, which is our problem for today.
David and Fabrice are joined by Sara Shane, a member of David’s Tuesday evening psychotherapy Stanford training group for northern California mental health professionals. Sara has volunteered to demonstrate the technique to see if she can get some help with procrastination.
Sara explains that she has a small clinical practice in the central valley of California working with children but would like to expand her practice to include teenagers and adults, so she can use the exciting TEAM-CBT skills she’s been learning in the Tuesday group over the past year. In addition, Sara is bilingual, so this would open up the possibility that many Spanish speaking individuals could have the opportunity for treatment with TEAM-CBT.
But to do that, Sara would have to start marketing her practice, but she’s been procrastinating. She never seems to get around to it, and always places the wants and needs of others in her family above her own.
David asks her what it is she’d have to do. She says she wants to put together a brochure describing her work so she could send it to people on her mailing list who might send her some referrals. David ask her to list the first few steps of her task, limiting what she would have to do to just to get started, something requiring only about 5 minutes.
Here are the first steps, and time required for each:
Sit down at the computer and turn it on. (30 seconds)
Open a blank document in MS Word. (30 seconds)
Jot down a few names for my practice, even if they aren’t especially good (since they can be revised later). (4 to 5 minutes)
Add my contact information. (1 minute).
So, the total time required would be six minutes or so. David asks if she’d be will to do it tomorrow morning from 9 AM to 9:06 AM. She said she’d actually like to start tonight, but it is already 9 PM and she still has a two-hour drive home. So she agrees to do it first thing in the morning instead. She also agrees to send an email to Fabrice and David and the Tuesday group at 9:06 with one of two messages: “Mission Accomplished” or “I stubbornly refused.”
Now we’re ready for the Devil’s Advocate Technique. David and Fabrice will play the role of the Devil who tempts Sara to procrastinate, using the actual thoughts Sara has when she’s procrastinating. They include:
I’ll do it later.
There’s always tomorrow.
I don’t have any appointments tomorrow, so I can start to work on the marketing materials then.
I have to take Mom to her doctor’s appointment now, so I can work on the marketing materials later.
Right now, I just need some rest and relaxation, some time for myself.
David begins and tells Sara, “Oh, you can do it later. There’s no reason for you to have to do it now!”
Sara’s response is decent, but not super-strong. You’ll hear on the audio that it’s a bit half-hearted, and not overwhelmingly convincing. And if she can’t crush the tempting thought during the session, she definitely won’t be able to resist it when she’s home alone.
Instead of giving Sara some tips on how to improve it—which David says the therapist should never do when working with someone with a habit or addiction—David suggests that maybe the problem of procrastination perhaps isn’t something Sara wants to work on right now.
This is called Sitting with Open Hands, and it’s far more powerful than trying to “help.” Trying to help a patient who’s struggling with a habit or addiction will usually just make the problem more intense.
Fabrice points out that people don’t need to be “taught” how to say “no” to some tempting thought. They just have to make a decision!
When David sits with Open Hands, Sara gets agitated and insists she really does want to defeat her procrastination. That’s the most common reaction to “Sitting with Open Hands.”
Then David asks if she’d like to try again. David verbalizes the first tempting thought again, and Sara immediately hits it out of the park in a convincing way.
David and Fabrice take turns as the “Devil,” verbalizing all Sara’s tempting thoughts. One by one, Sara destroys them. She leaves the session on a glow, quite excited about the new direction for her practice.
David and Fabrice emphasize that the Devil’s Advocate Technique is not a method you would just throw at someone with a habit or addiction. Instead, you would work with the person systematically, going through the T E A M model, one step at a time, just as you would with any patient. The Devil’s Advocate Technique is simply one of the M = Methods in TEAM. And it probably won’t be effective if you haven’t done skillful paradoxical agenda setting first, to find out if the patient really is motivated to give up his or her addiction.
Did it work? Was this little mini-session effective? That’s always the question, isn’t it?
Well, here’s the answer! Fabrice and I received this email from Sara this morning:
Hi Dr. Burns and Fabrice,
Thank you so much for the opportunity to volunteer last night for the podcast. What an awesome experience! I am so inspired and motivated that it was hard to stop creating my business postcard to email you that I had accomplished my mission!!!
This is really funny but truly AMAZING!!! I have done beyond what I agreed to do, and this just makes me feel so HAPPY!!!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I’M LOVING THIS!
Sara Shane
Way to go Sara! Fabrice and I are so proud of you, and looking forward to the exciting expansion of your practice!
There are only a few spots left for the live workshop in Palo Alto, but we still have room for you to join us for the online version. We will have helpers to guide the small group exercises for those online, as well as those who attend in person.
Coming in June! One of my best two day workshops ever!
“Scared Stiff: Fast, Effective Treatment for Anxiety Disorders”
a two-day workshop Sponsored by Jack Hirose & Associates June 4 -5, 2018 Calgary, Canada June 6 – 7, 2018 Winnipeg, Canada Mike Christensen and several others will be joining me at both locations to help out with supervision of the small group exercises. You’ll LOVE this workshop and you’ll learn TONS of powerful techniques to treat every type of anxiety. You’ll learn how to heal your clients and your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt as well!
I greatly appreciate your support, and hope you will continue to spread the word about TEAM-CBT and www.feelinggood.com. i am trying hard to reach as many people as possible with my free programming and blogs designed to help individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship conflicts, and habits and addictions, as well as the therapists who treat them!
Watch David and Mike on FB Live this Sunday,
April 29, 2018, at 3 PM (Pacific Time) as they discuss–
The Four “Great Deaths” of the Therapist’s Ego, or “Self”
Hi all!
Our Sunday show on April 22 on the four “Great Deaths” that correspond to recovery from depression, anxiety, relationship problems, and habits and addictions, respectively, was really well received. You can still watch it on my public FB page.
As it turns out, there are also four “Great Deaths” of the therapist’s “ego,” or “self,” that are required in TEAM-CBT. Do you know what they are? Here’s a hint–they correspond to the four letters of TEAM. In other words, there is a
T = Testing “Great Death” of the therapist’s ego
E = Empathy “Great Death” of the therapist’s ego
A = Agenda Setting “Great Death” of the therapist’s ego
M = Methods “Great Death” of the therapist’s ego
In you want to find out what these four “Great Deaths” involve, and why, tune in Sunday at 3 PM Pacific Time to listen live (you can ask questions and make comments if you listen live) or any time after that at my Public FB Page.
Hey, I am almost fully recovered from my bronchitis and started my Sunday hikes again. Here are some incredible photos by our beloved and brilliant Maryam! I hope you enjoy them. This first one, of the trail, is rather stupendous! Wow!
The next is a shot of a consultation I was doing with Alex, one of the psychiatric residents at Stanford, on a potential solutions to a challenging clinical problem.
These next two are photos of Zane and Heather, both members of the Tuesday group, as well as teacher, and both are outstanding TEAM-CBT therapists.
Some Cool Upcoming Workshops
Coming on May 20th! Act fast if you want to join us! Partially sold out but a few slots are still available for online participants.
There are no spots left for the live workshop in Palo Alto, but we still have room for you to join us online. Mike Christensen and others will be available to help those who join online with the small group exercises in “virtual” rooms. In this workshop, you’ll have the chance to personal work, so you can boost your own feelings of confidence and self-esteem while at the same time learning tons of new tools that will greatly boost your clinical effectiveness!
Coming in June! One of my best two-day workshops ever!
Mike Christensen and several others will be joining me at both locations to help out with supervision of the small group exercises. You’ll LOVE this workshop and you’ll learn TONS of powerful techniques to treat every type of anxiety. You’ll learn how to heal your clients and your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt as well! And I’ll do a live demonstration at each location, to add some drama, illumination, and inspiration. Should be exciting! Hope you can join us!
I greatly appreciate your support, and hope you will continue to spread the word about TEAM-CBT and www.feelinggood.com. i am trying hard to reach as many people as possible with my free programming and blogs designed to help individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship conflicts, and habits and addictions, as well as the therapists who treat them!
I think there are ways you can “share” these blogs, Feeling Good Podcasts, and Sunday FB Broadcasts with friends and colleagues. Please do that! This month, my Feeling Good Podcasts with beloved host, Dr. Fabrice Nye, will likely exceed 50,000 downloads for the first time. So you ARE helping! Thanks so much!
Watch David and Mike on FB Live tomorrow,
April 22, 2018, at 3 PM (Pacific Time) as they discuss–
the “Self” and the Death of the Self
Hi all!
As early as 2500 years ago Buddhists began talking about the “Great Death” as the path to enlightenment. Many other religions and spiritual paths also talk about death and rebirth. But what do these concepts actually mean, and do they have anything to do with psychotherapy, or are they strictly spiritual concepts?
In his FB Live broadcast tomorrow, David and Mike Christensen will explore these concepts and focus on a number of specific questions.
David claims there is not one, but four “Great Deaths” of the self, and they are involved in recovery from depression, anxiety disorders, relationship conflicts, and habits and addictions, respectively. What are these four Great Deaths?
Many individuals struggling with depression or anxiety fear the judgement of others. Have you ever felt like others might judge you because your “self” is defective, inferior, or simply “not good enough.” How does one escape from this dilemma? Is it even possible? What if your “self” really isn’tgood enough?
Can the “self” be judged? Can you judge the worthwhileness of a human being, as opposed to the specific things we think, do or say? Does the “self” even exist?
David and Mike will discuss these questions from a practical, psychological, and spiritual perspective, and will include vignettes and examples to breathe life into the discussion, and to keep it practical.
You will also get an update and sneak preview of David’s new book, Feeling Great, currently in progress!
There are no spots left for the live workshop in Palo Alto, but we still have room for you to join us online. Mike Christensen and others will be available to help those who join online with the small group exercises in “virtual” rooms. In this workshop, you’ll have the chance to personal work, so you can boost your own feelings of confidence and self-esteem while at the same time learning tons of new tools that will greatly boost your clinical effectiveness!
Coming in June! One of my best two-day workshops ever!
Mike Christensen and several others will be joining me at both locations to help out with supervision of the small group exercises. You’ll LOVE this workshop and you’ll learn TONS of powerful techniques to treat every type of anxiety. You’ll learn how to heal your clients and your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt as well! And I’ll do a live demonstration at each location, to add some drama, illumination, and inspiration. Should be exciting! Hope you can join us!
I greatly appreciate your support, and hope you will continue to spread the word about TEAM-CBT and www.feelinggood.com. i am trying hard to reach as many people as possible with my free programming and blogs designed to help individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship conflicts, and habits and addictions, as well as the therapists who treat them!
The is the second podcast on TEAM-CBT role-playing techniques and features the Paradoxical Double Standard Technique. David describes watching Dr. Maxy Maultsby do a demonstration of the Double Standard Technique when he was a psychiatric resident in the 1970s at the University of Pennsylvania medical school. He was quite surprised when the patient, who was severely depressed and suicidal following a break-up with her boyfriend, improved dramatically within an hour. David modified the technique in several ways, and tonight will present what is probably the most powerful way to use this technique.
The technique is based on the idea that most of us operate on a double-standard. When we are upset about some failure, mistake, or inadequacy, we tend to beat up on ourselves mercilessly. But if we were talking to a dear friend with the exact same problem, we’d be far more compassionate and realistic. Once you make the patient aware of this double-standard, you ask if he or she would be willing to talk to himself or herself in the same way he or she would talk to a dear friend.
But the unique feature of the way David does it, is that you, the therapist, “become” a dear friend of the patient, kind of like a long-list identical twin who is actually virtually identical to the patient, but a different person. Then the therapist (playing the role of the friend) describe the problem the patient is struggling as if it is your own problem.
Then you ask the patient what he or she thinks. Typically, the patient will respond with great compassion. Then you, the therapist, cross examine the patient, to make sure what the patient is saying is the absolute, 100% truth. Finally, you ask the patient to record this in the Positive Thoughts column on his or her Daily Mood Log.
While no technique will work for everyone, this one works for many patients if:
You’ve done excellent Empathy first.
You’ve done skillful Paradoxical Agenda Setting to melt away the patient’s Outcome Resistance.
The patient is reasonably compassionate and actually does have a double standard. On rare occasions, you may have a patient who hates himself or herself, who also hates other people. For these patients, the technique will not be effective.
The special guest tonight is Eleanor Scott, a community therapist who is a student in David’s Tuesday group at Stanford, and who has bravely volunteered to help demonstrate teaching techniques once again. (Eleanor was also feature in an Empathy role-play a couple weeks ago.)
Eleanor has brought a partially completed Daily Mood Log to the group, and the Upsetting Event is simply being in the Tuesday group and feeling insecure while trying to learn TEAM-CBT. These feelings are a fairly common, almost universal, among the therapists who attend David’s training groups. Initially, nearly all of them feel intense anxiety, along with a myriad of other negative feelings, such as shame and inadequacy, due to the belief that they are not “good enough,” along with the fear that others in the training group will notice their ineptitude and judge them!
Eleanor’s Negative Thoughts included:
I should be learning more quickly.
The other students will notice that I don’t know what I’m doing!
I’m never going to get this.
I don’t know what I’m doing.
I sound like an idiot/stupid.
I suck!
David explains how the Paradoxical Double-Standard Technique works, and demonstrates it with Eleanor. Eleanor finds a powerful inner voice and quickly blasts all of her Negative Thoughts out of the water.
David cross-examines Eleanor to find out if this amazingly rapid and dramatic change in her Negative Thoughts and feelings was real, or if she was just being “nice” to try to produce a good role-play for David!
Fabrice raps up the podcast with his (as usual) great interview with David and Eleanor, bringing out many of the teaching points during the session.
Follow-up: The day after the recording, Eleanor sent this fantastic email to our training group, and she gave me permission to share it with all of you.
Hi Tuesday groupers,
I wanted to share a success that I had with everyone, especially my ‘newbie’ group. I received a low grade on an evaluation of a therapy session by a client last week, and I started the session today by discussing this with the client. I used the Five Secrets of Effective Communication to acknowledge that she wasn’t heard (Disarming Technique) and shared how I felt about the session (“I Feel” Statement). I also asked about what I had missed (Inquiry). Throughout her account, I used Thought and Feeling Empathy.
The connection that was created from this was incredible. I was able to truly see this client and hear her story and see the amazing grace with which she lives her life (Stroking).
I also think that I was able to truly be present and vulnerable with my client had a lot to do with the amazing work I experienced being a volunteer on the podcast last night. I can’t thank you enough David… I am STILL feeling good and I’m riding this good feeling as far as it takes me!
If you get a chance… volunteer for the podcasts… it’s such an incredible opportunity for growth!
Thanks,
Eleanor
David’s response: Wow! Way to go, Eleanor! Awesome!
Next week: More of David’s Role-Playing Techniques!
We warmly invite you to attend this fabulous, one-day workshop by Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt on Sunday, May 20th, 2018. Click on the link above for registration and more information.
6 CE Credits
The cost is $135
You can join in person or online from wherever you live!
You will enjoy learning from David and Jill, working together to bring powerful, healing techniques to life in a clear, step-by-step way. Their teaching style as a team is entertaining, funny, lucid, and inspiring. This is a day you will remember fondly!
In the afternoon, you will have the chance to do some personal healing so you can overcome your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt. David and Jill promise to bring at least 60% of the audience into a state of spiritual and psychological enlightenment, WITHOUT years of meditation. That’s not a bad deal at all!
You will LOVE this workshop. Seating for those who attend live in Palo Alto will be strictly limited, and seats are filling up fast, so move rapidly if you are interested.
Jill and I hope you can join us!
Fabrice and I hope you like our Feeling Good Podcasts, and also hope you can leave some positive comments for us and five star ratings if you like what we’re doing!
I warmly invite you to attend this fabulous, one-day workshop by Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt on Sunday, May 20th, 2018. Click on the link above for registration information.
6 CE Credits
The cost is $135
You can join in person or online from wherever you live!
You will enjoy learning from David and Jill, working together to bring powerful, healing techniques to life in a clear, step-by-step way. Their teaching style is entertaining, funny, lucid, and inspiring. This is a day you will remember fondly!
In the afternoon, you will have the chance to do some personal healing so you can overcome your own feelings of insecurity and self-doubt. David and Jill promise to bring at least 60% of the audience into a state of spiritual and psychological enlightenment, WITHOUT years of meditation. That’s not a bad deal!
You will also leave this workshop with renewed confidence as well as specific, powerful tools that you can use right away to improve your clinical outcomes!
You will LOVE this workshop. Seating for those who attend live in Palo Alto will be strictly limited, and seats are filling up fast, so move rapidly if you are interested. Online slots are also limited.
When I was on a bus back to Amherst College after a long weekend break in the early 1960s, I scribbled out a poem for a creative writing class, since an assignment was due the next morning. However, I had the flu and a fever while writing the poem, so it was a bit incoherent, and I wasn’t even clear on what the poem was about, or what it meant.
Surprisingly, the teacher distributed the poem to the class for discussion, and the other students suggested that the poem was about Emily Dickinson, who had lived in Amherst in the mid-1800s. I greatly admired her work and used to visit her grave with a couple other Amherst students. One time, I knocked on the front door of the house where she had lived so long ago, and the owners let me in to look around.
Surprisingly, my poem was later published under the title, “Emily,” in a book of poems about Emily Dickinson by American poets. The book was entitled: Emily Dickinson—Letters from the World.
The book was inspired by one of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, which begins:
This is my letter to the World,
That never wrote to Me
Now we have a touching letter from the world for our beloved Marilyn Coffee, PhD, who inspired so many of you with her courageous live personal work on several Feeling Good Podcasts during 2017. I hope you enjoy this wonderful note!
David
Here’s the letter:
Dear Marilyn,
My name is Kent. I listened to the podcast the other week where you and Dr. Burns did TEAM therapy. First, I want to thank you so much for being willing to do the podcast.
At one point in the process, you said that you hoped that by doing the therapy in a public way, people who were struggling with depression / grief / anger etc. could be helped. You have helped me so much, and now I feel so blessed to have your session as a resource for anyone who is isolated, afraid, angry and feeling alone.
While listening to your session, I kept thinking about a friend of mine who committed suicide this last year. Now I know that he was completely clobbered by distortions. Also, he grew up in a very religious family and a great deal of his guilt came from theological distortions. He would have been so helped, I see that now.
I have struggled with faith all my life. In this last year, I have struggled with terrible insomnia and so much guilt and anger. I went to seminary for eight years; this only added to my feelings that I “should” be closer to God, more selfless, holy, etc. If I was a truly spiritual person, I wouldn’t be struggling with doubt, anger or fear.
It’s a long story, but so much in my life fell apart a year ago that my body just couldn’t take my attempts at keeping everything all together. I never fought the ideas in my head, why would you fight the truth?
Because of you, I am starting to see distortions for what they are, lies that look and feel so real. I looked up a picture of you and David Burns last night to get the correct spelling of your name. I just wanted you to know that you are etched in my mind now as a spiritual warrior.
Your willingness to openly share your dark night with us helps us see what true spirituality looks like. Your honesty and vulnerability help to demolish the commonly held belief that truly spiritual people do not suffer. But you guys also showed us that in the end, pain and suffering is not all there is and that it will not have the last word.
Maybe it’s not ironic that I’m writing this the Saturday morning after Good Friday. When I struggle now, I not only have your honesty and bravery in my memory, I can listen to the recording to be reminded how to fight distortions and not get sucked in the undertow!
You are in my heart, thoughts and prayers and I am forever grateful.
With much respect,
Kent
Catch the David and Jill Show on OCD, part 2, today, April 1, 2018 at 3 PM
On today’s live FB broadcast, I will be joined by Dr. Jill Levitt and Mike Christensen for our part two discussion on the treatment of OCD. You can catch it live at 3 PM, West Coast Time, or anytime later on. The recording will be available on the website indefinitely.
Next week, special guest Stephen Pfleiderer will join me at 3 PM to discuss new approaches to the treatment of addictions, especially drug and alcohol abuse. You can see Stephen below on one of my Sunday hikes.
David
How to Find My FB Broadcasts
Click on my Facebook tab on https://feelinggood.com/ if you’d like to watch me each week on my Live Facebook broadcast each Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m. PST. Make sure to “like” my Public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DavidBurnsMD/ so you can watch it on my page or yours.
Join me as I answer mental health questions from viewers — therapists and non-therapists alike — from all over the world. Type your question in the Facebook feed and I’ll do my best to answer it.
If you miss the broadcast you can watch the saved videos on my Facebook page! Also, viewers can watch these Live Facebook broadcasts as well as other interesting TEAM-CBT videos on the Feeling Good Institute’s YouTube channel!
The David and Fabrice Feeling Good Podcasts
Fabrice and I hope you also enjoy our Feeling Good Podcasts, and also hope you can leave some positive comments for us and some five star ratings if you like what we’re doing! We are now enjoying more 45,000 downloads per month from listeners like you. Thank you so much for your support of our podcasts! Please keep spreading the word to friends who might be interested!
“I’m a loser. . . I’m a failure. . . Where do my negative thoughts come from? “
In this podcast, David and Fabrice answer several fascinating questions submitted by listeners:
Jackie asks where our distorted thoughts come from, since they are so often irrational and distorted, and inconsistent with the facts. Why do we sometimes beat up on ourselves relentlessly with negative thoughts?
Tyler asks if it possible to do TEAM-CBT in conventional, 45 minute sessions. And if so, how? It seems my patients are just warming up by the end of the session, and then we have to start all over again the next week.
Jess asks if it is possible to use the Five Secrets of Effective Communication in non-therapy settings. For example, if you are in a position of authority, like a high school teacher, will your students lose respect for you if you use the Five Secrets? Could you use the Five Secrets if you are working with violent gang members?
Two Cool Upcoming Workshops for you!
March 22 and 23, 2018 Rapid Recovery from Trauma,(David D. Burns, MD)J&K Seminars, Lancaster, Pa 15 CE credits, includes live evening demonstration on the evening of day 1. You can join in person or online from wherever you live!
Fabrice and I hope you like our Feeling Good Podcasts, and also hope you can leave some positive comments for us and five star ratings if you like what we’re doing!
I got another fantastic email from a Feeling Good Podcast fan, and deeply appreciate the kinds words! I hope you enjoy reading it! Also, the recent podcast, Live Therapy with Daisy, has had an unprecedented number of positive responses from listeners. It’s really moving, in case you haven’t yet listened.
If you have never listened to the Feeling Good Podcasts with my wonderful host and colleague, Dr. Fabrice Nye, you can link to them right here on my website, and if you sign up in the upper right hand corner of this page, you’ll receive an email notice every time I publish a new blog.
David
Dear Dr. Burns,
Yes!
Thank you both for the pod cast!
Who came up with the idea? It is an amazing contribution to folks like me!!
Each episode is incredibly enriching. You both have a wonderful way of collaborating and explain the TEAM model so clearly.
I love the way you each respect one another and deeply admire the fact that you preach the importance of the death of the ego.
This approach is unfortunately so rare in our field.
Please please keep them coming!
Joshua
Thanks, Yael, for your encouraging words, and for permission to share them here!
Catch the David and Jill Show on OCD this Sunday!
My live FB broadcasts have been moved to 3 PM Pacific (California) Time every Sunday afternoon and are now called “The David and Jill Show,” since I am joined most Sundays by my incredibly colleague, Jill Levitt, PhD. I hope you can join us! The show is for therapists and the general public alike. If you cannot join us live, you can download the shows and listen any time that’s convenient for you!
last Sunday’s show (David and Jill Show #3) on Intimacy Training has been the most successful to date, with nearly 2,000 listeners in the first week alone. You can catch it any time on my public facebook page.
Feel free to submit questions you’d like Jill and me to cover in these shows. Your questions drive the discussion each Sunday afternoon! This coming Sunday, March 18, we will address questions about and treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
David
How to Find My FB Broadcasts
Click on my Facebook tab on https://feelinggood.com/ if you’d like to watch me each week on my Live Facebook broadcast each Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m. PST. Make sure to “like” my Public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DavidBurnsMD/ so you can watch it on my page or yours.
Join me as I answer mental health questions from viewers — therapists and non-therapists alike — from all over the world. Type your question in the Facebook feed and I’ll do my best to answer it.
If you miss the broadcast you can watch the saved videos on my Facebook page! Also, viewers can watch these Live Facebook broadcasts as well as other interesting TEAM-CBT videos on the Feeling Good Institute’s YouTube channel!
The David and Fabrice Feeling Good Podcasts
Fabrice and I hope you also enjoy our Feeling Good Podcasts, and also hope you can leave some positive comments for us and some five star ratings if you like what we’re doing! We are already enjoying 25,000 downloads per month from listeners like you. Thank you so much for your support of our podcasts!
