End Panic and Anxiety for You & Your Patients: CBT & Exposure Techniques That Work

You’ll learn how to apply exposure to reduce avoidance, eliminate anxiety, and create lasting change.

You’ll watch real therapy video excerpts and learn step-by-step how to use exposure techniques in session—even with clients who resist or avoid. Along the way, you’ll hear memorable teaching stories from Dr. David Burns and witness him work with Terri, who endured 10 years of severe depression, panic attacks, and hopelessness—and discover how rapid recovery became possible.

During this session, you will:

• Break Through Resistance to Exposure: Discover how to build trust and motivation —so even hesitant clients feel ready to face their fears

• Learn to Identify and Remove Safety Behaviors: Learn how safety behaviors undermine exposure and how to eliminate them for lasting recovery

• Use Fast-Acting CBT Tools: Get clear, step-by-step instruction on powerful tools like the What-If Technique, building a Fear And Avoidance Hierarchy, and Cognitive Flooding—and how to match each one to your client’s needs in real time

Webinar Details:

Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

CE Credit: Earn 2 Free Continuing Education Units (CEs)

Cost: Free

✔️ Open to: General public and mental health professionals

This is a live-streamed webinar via Zoom. 100% attendance and completion of the CE survey immediately after the webinar is required to receive your CE certificate. Can’t attend live? A recording will be shared with all who register, but CE credit is only awarded to those who attend live.

Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Identify two CBT techniques that help clients face their biggest fears

• Explain the difference between gradual exposure and flooding—and when to use each

Instructor Bio: 

David Burns, MD, 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.

Jill Levitt, PhD, 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.