Dr. David Burns Live: Real Therapy. Real Change. Real Time.

Watch as Dr. Burns works moment by moment to build rapport, dismantle resistance, and spark breakthrough change - while sharing insights and teaching points along the way. You'll witness what works (and what doesn't), and come away with practical tools to enhance your effectiveness with clients facing similar challenges.

Following the live session, Dr. Burns and Dr. Jill Levitt will lead a live discussion and Q&A to deepen your understanding of techniques used to help you integrate them into your own practice.

This transformal training takes place on Friday, June 20th, 2025. It's free to attend, open to both therapists and to the general public, and offers 3.5 CE credits for mental health professionals. 

During the session, you will learn how to:

Enhance Your Clinical Effectiveness: Learn to recognize and correct common therapeutic failures, track progress in real time, and discover how to bring greater clarity and humanity to your sessions

Utilize Powerful Techniques: Learn interventions to dismantle resistance and foster rapid change

Crush the Thoughts That Fuel Depression and Anxiety: Learn how to identify and untwist distorted beliefs that drive suffering

Witness a Full Therapy Session, Unfolding in Real Time: Experience the nuance, pacing, and breakthroughs of expert therapy as it happens

Observe a Reliable Framework in Action: Learn the TEAM-CBT framework to build strong therapeutic alliances, and create faster, more lasting change in your therapy outcomes.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to:
1. Describe one benefit of measurement and symptom tracking

2. Identify one common empathy error in therapy

3. Explain the purpose of Positve Reframing in reducing resistance

4. Name two cognitives distortions common in anxiety and depression

Webinar Details:
Date: Friday, June 20th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM PT / 12:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Duration: 3.5 hours
CE Credit: Earn 3.5 Continuing Education Units (CE)
Cost: Free

Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn directly from one of the field's most celebrate innovators. Whether you're a seasoned therapist or simply someone curious about emotional healing, this live event promises insight, inspiration, and transformation.

This is a live-streamed webinar, via Zoom. 100% attendance and completion of CE survey immediately after the webinar is required to receive your CE certificate of completion.

Can't attend live? A recording of the workshop will be posted to the webinar page for all who register. Please note that CEs can only be provided to those who attend live.

Continuing Education Accreditation
*The Feeling Good Institute (FGI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Feeling Good Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Feeling Good Institute Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0175. The Feeling Good Institute (FGI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6750. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. FGI is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Feeling Good Institute, #1442 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Feeling Good Institute maintains responsibility for this course. Ace provider approval period: 05/30/2024-05/30/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3.5 continuing education credit. Feeling Good Institute, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0678. A certificate of attendance will be emailed to attendees who attend 100% of the training within a week of completion of the workshop survey. Individuals with disabilities requiring special accommodations please contact Dr. Maor Katz at maor@feelinggoodinstitute.com.

Instructor Bio:

David Burns, M.D. is an Adjunct Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher, the bestselling author of self-help books, including Feeling Good, with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, and the host of the Feeling Good podcast, which has received over 9 million downloads.

Dr. Burns was a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, and is the creator of TEAM-CBT, which makes rapid recovery from depression and anxiety possible. His Feeling Great app triggers 60% to 70% reductions in feelings of depression and anxiety in less than one day. 

Dr. Burns graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College, earned his MD from Stanford, and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He later served as Acting Chief of Psychiatry at Penn and as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Jill Levitt is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Director of Training at the Feeling Good Institute in Mountain View, CA.  Dr. Levitt has almost 20 years of experience conducting Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and has been trained by some of the world’s leaders in CBT. 

Dr. Jill Levitt has co-written several scholarly articles in the areas of OCD, PTSD and Panic Disorder. Most recently she has been co-teaching CBT with Dr. David Burns at the Stanford University School of Medicine in her role on the Adjunct Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She also trains other therapists in David Burns’ model of CBT called TEAM-CBT Therapy.

Dr. Jill Levitt is a certified Level 5 Master Therapist and Trainer in TEAM-CBT Therapy.  Dr. Levitt teaches both in-person and online workshops for Feeling Good Institute on CBT methods, reducing resistance in psychotherapy, and improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy.