Ask Rhonda, Matt, and David! Tips for Joy and more! In today's Ask David, we are honored to feature Matthew May, MD, a former student of David's during his psychiatric residency training, and now esteemed colleague. Rhonda and David are thrilled that Matt can join us, not only because he is a dear and loved colleague, but also because he is one of the greatest therapists on planet earth! Plus, he's an incredibly gentle and compassionate man. Rhonda Asks: What is the most effective way to help a ...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 245
The Paradoxical Nature of TEAM In today's podcast, we are honored to feature Matthew May, MD, a brilliant and beloved colleague of Rhonda and David. Rhonda suggested the topic for today's podcast on the Paradoxical Nature of TEAM, and Matt and I were more than excited to dive into this cool topic! We reviewed the paradoxical nature of the four components of TEAM. As you will see, each paradox requires one of the four "great deaths" of the therapist's "self," or "ego." The Paradoxes in T = Testin...
May 31, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 244
Ask Rhonda, Matt and David! Ask David #243 May 24, 2021 David and Ronda answer your questions about the role of hope, treating court-ordered patients, suicide threats, being a virgin, and moral scrupulosity. Guest expert, Dr. Matthew May, joins us for this fascinating podcast featuring questions from fans like you! V3A asks: What is the role of hope? EdG asks: How would you deal with a patient who doesn't like you or doesn't want to come for treatment, but has been required by either an employer...
May 24, 2021•54 min•Ep. 243
Professor Yehuda's TEAM-CBT Israeli Initiative! Today's podcast is the latest in a series Rhonda has created featuring people who are doing interesting and creative things with TEAM-CBT. In today's episode, we feature Yehuda Bar-Shalom, D.H.L, TEAM CBT level 4 trainer and therapist, who will teach us all about the use of TEAM in the school system. Yehuda, who is an associate professor appointed by the Council of higher education in Israel, is the first person we know to teach TEAM to school coun...
May 17, 2021•56 min•Ep. 242
Live Work with Elizabeth, Part 2 (of 2) "I'm tired of being terrified. I want to be at peace!" Last week, we brought you Part 1 of a session with a women who's been struggling with anxiety and the fear of poverty every since she was 13 years old. that included T = Testing and E = Empathy, including an empathy error that David and Jill corrected. Today, we bring you the conclusion of that amazing session! After the empathy correction, Elizabeth suddenly said: "I don't talk about this stuff very m...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 241
"I'm tired of being terrified. I want to be at peace!" Live Work with Elizabeth, Part 1 (of 2) This podcast features Elizabeth Dandenell, LMFT, who runs a successful treatment clinic in Alameda, California for anxiety disorders, The East Bay Center for Anxiety Relief ( www.eastbayanxiety.com .). She is a certified Level 4 TEAM therapist and trainer, and also helps teach mental health professionals at our Tuesday psychotherapy training group at Stanford. We are deeply indebted to Elizabeth for al...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 240
239: Ten Days to Self-Esteem, Featuring Dawn O'Meally Dawn O'Meally is a licensed mental health professional from Westminster, Maryland who purchased my book, Ten Days to Self-Esteem workbook (link) as well as the Ten Days to Self-Esteem Leader's Manual for at a workshop she attended in 2002. This is a 10-class self-esteem training program for patients and the general public. The groups can be led by a therapist or lay person. This book was the basis of a large and successful treatment program a...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 239
238: Feeling Great Book Club Featuring Drs. Sharon Batista and Robert Schacter In today's podcast, Drs. Sharon Batista and Robert Schacter describe their visionary 16-week Feeling Great Book Club for mental health professionals that we mentioned in a podcast several months ago. The group was a great success, and I am super thankful to them for creating it! Sharon described how the group came into being. She'd been looking forward to Feeling Great and ordered the hardbound and the audio version a...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 238
Podcast 237: The Gentle Ultimatum: Can We Make Our Patients Accountable? April 12, 2021 At the top of the podcast, Rhonda reads several beautiful and thoughtful comments from listeners like you. One was an enthusiastic listener who found us on YouTube and wondered why we don't have vastly larger audiences, since the quality of what we offer is not only free, but it beats out all the other "self-help gurus" by a large margin. Thanks for that. We are not experts in market and could use all the hel...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 237
Upcoming Workshops The Cognitive Distortion Starter Kit With David Burns, MD A One-Day Workshop on May 5, 2021 Click here for more information including registration! 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM West Coast Time: 7 CE Credits Bringing TEAM-CBT to Life in Real Time Two Live Therapy Demonstrations with Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 5:30 PM PACIFIC TIME ON SATURDAY 5/15/21. NO EXCEPTIONS. Live Online Workshop with David Burns, MD and Jill Levitt, Ph.D. Click here for more informatio...
Apr 05, 2021•55 min•Ep. 236
235: Anger in Marriage Several months ago. a professional dancer named Brian emailed me with an Ask David question on how to deal with anger in marriage using the Five Secrets of Effective Communication . I was pretty excited because anger in marriage is a problem nearly everyone can identify with, and something we all need some help with! Brian and his family Brian said that he and his wife, Michelle, have been married since 2009, and while he loves Michelle a great deal, their relationship run...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 235
Announcements / Upcoming Workshops March 24, 2021 Feeling Great: A New, High-Speed Treatment for Depression and Anxiety. A One-Day Workshop by David Burns, MD. sponsored by Jack Hirose & Associates, Vancouver Click here for more information including registration! April 7, 2021 Bringing TEAM-CBT to Life in Real Time, by David D. Burns, MD. A Half-Day Live Therapy Demonstration Sponsored by Jack Hirose & Associates, Vancouver Click here for more information including registration! * * * P...
Mar 22, 2021•40 min•Ep. 234
Phillip with his brother, (Paul), his mother (Maureen) and Ladybug (Labrador). Phillip Lolonis joins us again with vital information we forgot to explore in his first podcast two weeks ago. Phillip's interest in the treatment of schizophrenia stemmed from his relationship with his brother, who suddenly and unexpectedly developed schizophrenia when he was 19 years old. and Phillip was 26, One of his motivations to become a therapist was his anger and disillusionment with the treatment his brother...
Mar 15, 2021•54 min•Ep. 233
Announcements: Feeling Great Book Club We're excited to announce a Feeling Great Book Club for anyone in the world, supporting people in reading and learning from David Burns' powerful and healing TEAM-CBT book Feeling Great with questions and answers, exercises and discussions in large and small groups. It will meet online for an hour at a time for 16 weeks on Wednesdays starting March 17 at 9am and 5pm Pacific Time - which should allow for fairly reasonable hours from anywhere in the world. No...
Mar 08, 2021•59 min•Ep. 232
This is the first of two podcasts featuring Phillip Lolonis, LCSW, who works with Rhonda at her new FeelingGreatTherapyCenter.com. Some of you may remember my descriptions and photos of my Sunday hikes for people in our training groups for the past ten years. Here's a photo from one my last hikes before the pandemic. Phillip is the one in red in the back row. I hope to resume the Sunday hikes as soon as people are vaccinated! In today's podcast, you'll meet Phillip Lolonis who has transformed TE...
Mar 01, 2021•56 min•Ep. 231
Ask David: Questions on self-esteem, recovery from PTSD, dating people with Borderline Personality Disorder, recovery on your own, and more! Jay asks: Is psychotherapy homework still required if you've recovered completely from depression in a single, extended therapy session? Is Ten Days to Self-Esteem better than the single chapter on this topic in Feeling Good ? Are people who were abused emotionally when growing up more likely to get involved with narcissistic or borderline individuals later...
Feb 22, 2021•47 min•Ep. 230
Today's emotional and inspiring podcast features Mary Stockton, an Level 3 certified TEAM therapist living in Ohio and her daughter, Elizabeth Stockton Perkins, who is 19 years old and a sophomore at Vassar College. They give testament to how the Five Secrets of Effective Communication have transformed their relationship as mother and daughter, as well as their relationships with others. Mary said that the Five Secrets changed her life personally and professionally, and that the tools have been ...
Feb 15, 2021•58 min•Ep. 229
In today's podcast, we focus on a request by Tommy, a podcast fan who asked for a podcast on how TEAM evolved from traditional CBT. So here it is! Hi Dr. Burns, I hope you're doing well! I just recently completed Feeling Great and found it incredibly helpful. I found the technique chart that offered specific techniques for each distortion to be incredibly valuable and I've incorporated it into all my Daily Mood Logs. I've also listened to every podcast and have been already exposed to nearly all...
Feb 08, 2021•46 min•Ep. 228
Many of you will recall one of our most popular and amazing podcasts of all, the recording of the live therapy with Michael at the Atlanta intensive last year. In today's recording, which was recorded for a different purpose, Dr. Michael recalls his entire experience that day, with many teaching points. Although I was AT the Atlanta intensive doing the therapy, with the help of my co-therapist, Thai-An Truong, I was fascinated and enlightened by this interviews because: Michael was incredibly wa...
Feb 01, 2021•44 min•Ep. 227
We have not had the chance to do a really good podcast on the Five Secrets of Effective Communication recently, so Rhonda and I jumped at the chance to do a podcast with a local executive we will call "Valentina" who is facing a severe challenge. How can she respond effectively to a ton of her colleagues who responded critically and angrily to one her first emails since being place in a top leadership role at work? They said that her email was harsh and accusatory, and sounded adversarial and pr...
Jan 25, 2021•56 min•Ep. 226
At the start of today's podcast, we got an update on the Feeling Great app from Jeremy Karmel. We are looking for one or more programmers who might like to join our project. Our goal is to create the first electronic tool that can outperform human therapists, and some super promising preliminary data suggests we may be on the right path to make this happen. We are looking for talented engineers and designers who would share our passion for this incredible dream. If you are interested, contact Je...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 225
Podcast 224 Ask David January 11, 2021 Ask David featuring more challenging and interesting questions. Josh asks: What are the most effective types of psychotherapy homework assignments? Hassam asks: How would you treat my severe OCD? Exposure doesn't seem to be working! And Joe asks: Would you say that the secret to overcoming OCD is willpower? Ted asks: Does any psychiatric disorder result from a chemical imbalance in the brain? Brian W. asks: Burns, could you do a video on how to use CBT for ...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 224
The Jealousy Addiction! What Can You Do When Good Things Happen to Bad People? Hi podcast fans! Thanks for your wonderful support in 2020. You helped us hit our three millionth download. I wanted to give a shout out to my fantastic hostess, Dr. Rhonda Barovsky, who has brought magic to the Feeling Good Podcast! This is our first podcast of 2021. It is a really good one, I think. A tremendous amount of work has gone into it, both in the weeks prior to the podcast, as well as in the creation of th...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 223
Podcast 222 Ask David December 28, 2020 Ask David featuring five challenging questions. Jay asks: How do you treat individuals with personality disorders using TEAM-CBT? Jeff asks: Can you talk more about the "great death" of the therapist's "helping" or "rescuing" self? This was really helpful to me! Darkmana asks: Hey David, are there any books about Buddhism you would recommend? I can see you're a fan of it from Feeling Great! Angela asks: What's a perfect score on your empathy test? Margaret...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 222
Podcast 221 Ask David December 21, 2020 Today's Ask David features five challenging questions submitted by listeners like you! Sumaya asks: I recently bought Feeling Great and can't find the chapters on Habits and Addictions in the book. Could you please clarify? Jay asks: Can you provide more specific information on the contrasts between Feeling Good, The Feeling Good Handbook, and Feeling Great ? Rizwan asks: How would you use the Five Secrets to respond to a truly irate patient? Casey asks: H...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 221
Today's podcast features Dr. Steven C. Hayes, the founder of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and author of 46 books, including his most recent book, The Liberated Mind, which is available on Amazon. We are joined by Dr. Jill Levitt, the Director of Training at the Feeling Good Institute in Mountain View, California. Dr. Hayes began by describing ACT, a form of psychotherapy aimed at increasing something he calls "psychological flexibility." He defines psychological flexibility as the ab...
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 220
Today's podcast features a most unusual and incredibly inspiring guest, Dr. Cai Chen. Cai is a fourth-year general psychiatric resident at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Tyler, Texas. He's also currently enrolled with Mike Christensen's "Live Online CBT Training Courses for Therapists." Cai has told me that Mike Christensen is a "friggin' amazing teacher" and that everyone who is interested in starting their journey in TEAM owes it to themselves to take his class. My first cont...
Dec 07, 2020•59 min•Ep. 219
Do Negative Thoughts or Hormones Cause Postpartum Depression and Anxiety? And What's the Best Treatment? TEAM-CBT or Pills? We begin today's podcast with a lovely endorsement, and an announcement that Rhonda's new free Wednesday TEAM therapy training group will be open to therapists from around the world and will start on December 2, 2020 at 9 to 11 AM west coast (pacific) time. Rhonda will have many fine trainers working with her, including the incredible Richard Lam, and the magnificent Leigh ...
Nov 30, 2020•54 min•Ep. 218
Today's Ask David features four terrific questions. Kevin asks: Why is the concept of worthwhileness and worthlessness so important to people and their emotional health? Vallejo asks: Does the statement, "WHY AM I ALWAYS THE LAST ONE TO FIND OUT ABOUT ANYTHING?" correspond to overgeneralization, or self-blame? I've been listening to the early podcasts on the ten positive and negative cognitive distortions. David P asks: Do you think there is anything to be gained from a daily gratitude log, to g...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 217
Ask David featuring four terrific Should questions, and more questions about "asinine, stupid, narcissistic, self-serving humans! " Oliver asks: Can a thought be thought as moral or immoral? Vincent asks: I have suffered from depression for about 3 years and say to myself, "I should have gotten better sooner." Isn't this "should" appropriate? Charles says: Your concept of "no self" shot my anxiety way up and made me feel hopeless. . . . It makes me feel worse than before! Michelle asks: How is y...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 216
