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Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyOvercoming Your Porn AddictionOvercoming Your Porn Addiction Featuring the Awesome Thai-An Truong! 🎙️ Hosts: Dr. David Burns, Creator of TEAM-CBT and author of Feeling Good Rhonda Barovsky, Co-Host and Therapist at the Feeling Great Therapy Center 🎉 Special Guest: Thai-Ann Truong. Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a Superb TEAM-CBT Teacher, Trainer, and Super-Shrink who specializes in the treatment of Trauma, OCD, and marital / relationship dysfunction, including the impact of a porn addiction on couples In this jam-packed episode, of the Feeling Good podcast, David and Rhonda welcome Thai-An Troung, Level 5 TEAM therapist and trainer, licensed professional counselor...2025-02-241h 05
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyWhat's Special About TEAM-CBTSwimming in an Ocean of Gold-- The Unique Magic of TEAM-CBT! 🎙️ Hosts: Dr. David Burns, Creator of TEAM-CBT and author of Feeling Good Rhonda Barovsky, Co-Host and Therapist at the Feeling Great Therapy Center 🎉 Special Guests: Jeremy Karmel, CEO of the Feeling Great App Jason Meno, AI Content Lead and Developer of the Feeling Great App Episode Summary In this jam-packed episode, the Feeling Good team dives deep into the groundbreaking elements of TEAM-CBT. From rapid emotional transformations to the app’s jaw-dropping AI breakthroughs, this conversation will leave you inspir...2025-02-171h 09
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyWas Epictetus Right? Finally--an Answer!Do Negative Thoughts REALLY Cause Depression? An Answer--At Last!--from Research Featuring David Burns, Jeremy Karmel, Diane Spangler and Rhonda Barovsky Today, David and two dear colleagues--Jeremy Karmel, CEO of the Feeling Great Corporation, and Dr. Diane Spangler--share the amazing results of two types of research on the Feeling Great app that focus on two related and vitally important questions: How effective is the Feeling Great app? Research confirms it triggers incredibly fast and dramatic reductions in seven negative feelings: depression, anxiety, guil7, inadequacy, loneliness, hopelessness and anger. The speed and depth...2025-01-061h 09
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyAsk David: Changing an SDB; Intense Public Speaking AnxietyAsk David How Can I Change an SDB (Self-Defeating Belief)? How Can I Cope with Intense Public Speaking Anxiety? Featuring Rhonda Barovsky, Psy.D., Matthew May, MD, Jason Meno and David Burns, MD (Jason is an AI Scientist on our Feeling Great App Team) Anonymous asks: How can I change an SDB (Self-Defeating Belief)? Hiranmay asks: How can I deal with my intense anxiety before public speaking. Answers to Your Questions Note: These answers below were written BEFORE the podcast, and the live discussion always adds new and different angles. Today, Jason Meno, our beloved AI guy o...2024-10-211h 16
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyPhobias, Be Gone!418 The Fear of Driving Featuring Werner Spitzfaden, LCSW and Rhonda Barovsky, PsyD Today, we feature Werner Spitzfaden, LCSW, a Level 3 certified TEAM-CBT therapist who recently treated Rhonda, who's driving phobia returned during the pandemic because she did very little driving at that time. After you overcome any fear or phobia, it has a way of returning if you don’t continue confronting your fear. Werner describes his skillful and compassionate work with Rhonda! Werner is a dear colleague and friend with over 35 plus years of clinical experience treating phobias, such as the fear of flying, claustrophobia (the fe...2024-10-141h 25
| Feeling Good407: Do You Have a “Self?”Drs. Fabrice Nye, Matt May, David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky debate the existence of the "self," and discuss the practical implication for our understanding and treatment of depression and anxiety.
The post 407: Do You Have a “Self?” appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-07-3100 minFeeling Good407: Do You Have a “Self?”Drs. Fabrice Nye, Matt May, David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky debate the existence of the "self," and discuss the practical implication for our understanding and treatment of depression and anxiety.
The post 407: Do You Have a “Self?” appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-07-3100 min| Feeling Good405: Ask David: Why does my father try to control me? Why do women ghost me? And more!Drs. Matt May, David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky answer your questions on: Why does my father try to control me? Why do women ghost me? Why people feel "trapped?"
The post 405: Ask David: Why does my father try to control me? Why do women ghost me? And more! appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-07-1500 minFeeling Good405: Ask David: Why does my father try to control me? Why do women ghost me? And more!Drs. Matt May, David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky answer your questions on: Why does my father try to control me? Why do women ghost me? Why people feel "trapped?"
The post 405: Ask David: Why does my father try to control me? Why do women ghost me? And more! appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-07-1500 min| Feeling Good402: Ask David: Unfairness; Erasing Depression with Lasers; TEAM in the UK; Most Powerful TechniqueDrs. Matt May, David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky answer your questions on: Lasers for depression? Unfairness? Does achievement makes us more worthwhile? Is Positive Reframing the Most Powerful Technique? And more.
The post 402: Ask David: Unfairness; Erasing Depression with Lasers; TEAM in the UK; Most Powerful Technique appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-06-2400 minFeeling Good402: Ask David: Unfairness; Erasing Depression with Lasers; TEAM in the UK; Most Powerful TechniqueDrs. Matt May, David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky answer your questions on: Lasers for depression? Unfairness? Does achievement makes us more worthwhile? Is Positive Reframing the Most Powerful Technique? And more.
The post 402: Ask David: Unfairness; Erasing Depression with Lasers; TEAM in the UK; Most Powerful Technique appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-06-2400 min| Feeling Good401: Ask David: Bipolar, the Dark Side, Changing BehaviorDrs. David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky answer your questions on: How can you treat Bipolar depression with TEAM? Should you accept your Dark Side? Shouldn't we work with behavior as well as thoughts?
The post 401: Ask David: Bipolar, the Dark Side, Changing Behavior appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-06-1700 minFeeling Good401: Ask David: Bipolar, the Dark Side, Changing BehaviorDrs. David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky answer your questions on: How can you treat Bipolar depression with TEAM? Should you accept your Dark Side? Shouldn't we work with behavior as well as thoughts?
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Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyThe Amy Story, Part 1 of 2Featured Photo is Dr. Amy Huberman The Amy Story Part 1: True Confessions of a “Fraud” and a “Failure” Part 2: The Joys of Doing the Laundry Amy and her exuberant son, Sasha, and husband, Poppy Today’s podcast, and next week’s podcast, include a single, two-hour session with Amy Huberman, MD. Amy is a psychiatrist in private practice in Baltimore, MD. She also serves on the volunteer faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Amy specializes in brief, intensive psychotherapy to help people overcome struggles with anxiety, OCD, and trauma, but today comes...2024-03-181h 03Feeling Good378: Performance Anxiety, Part 1 of 2Drs. Rhonda Barovsky and David Burns work with a young British physician who wants to advertise his clinical practice--but struggles with performance anxiety as he tries to tell people about his pioneering efforts to step outside the British Health Service with a fresh approach to mental and physical wellness.
The post 378: Performance Anxiety, Part 1 of 2 appeared first on Feeling Good.2024-01-0800 min| Feeling Good378: Performance Anxiety, Part 1 of 2Drs. Rhonda Barovsky and David Burns work with a young British physician who wants to advertise his clinical practice--but struggles with performance anxiety as he tries to tell people about his pioneering efforts to step outside the British Health Service with a fresh approach to mental and physical wellness.
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Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyFree Master Class on Perfectionism, Part 2 of 2A Second Visit to David and Jill's Tuesday TEAM Training Group at Stanford Last week, you “sat in” on our Tuesday training group at Stanford and learned about two of the four most important techniques in the treatment of perfectionism, or any other Self-Defeating Belief. (For a list of 23 common Self-Defeating Beliefs, click here.) The Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA): You weight the advantages against the disadvantages of trying to be perfect. The Semantic Technique, to find out how to word your new belief if you decide that your perfectionism belief isn’t workin...2023-07-031h 38| Feeling Good336: Perfectionism, Part 2 of 2Drs. David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky do live work with a man struggling with perfectionism and feelings of intense self-doubt in spite of incredible accomplishments. This is a heart-warmin and educational podcast for those wanting to learn how to overcome perfectionism and the belief that you're not good enough! This is Part 2 today.
The post 336: Perfectionism, Part 2 of 2 appeared first on Feeling Good.2023-03-2000 min| Feeling Good335: Perfectionism, Part 1 of 2Drs. David Burns and Rhonda Barovsky do live work with a man struggling with perfectionism and feelings of intense self-doubt in spite of incredible accomplishments. This is a heart-warmin and educational podcast for those wanting to learn how to overcome perfectionism and the belief that you're not good enough!
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Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyRejection Practice?! It's freaking me out! Part 2 of 2Live Therapy with Cody, Part 2 of 2 Last week we presented the first of our session with Cody, a young man wanting help with his fairly severe social anxiety since childhood. My co-therapist for this session was Dr. Rhonda Barovsky, the Feeling Good Podcast co-host, and Director, Feeling Great Therapy Center. Today, you will hear the exciting conclusion of his session, and the follow-up as well! Part 2 M = Methods We focused on cognitive work and interpersonal exposure techniques as well. I will leave it to you to listen to the...2023-01-161h 07
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyRejection Practice?! It's freaking me out! Part 1 of 2Featured pic of Cody in one of the small group practice sessions in David's virtual Tuesday training group. Live Therapy with Cody, Part 1 of 2 I recently treated Cody, a young man wanting help with his fairly severe social anxiety since childhood, during one of our Tuesday evening Stanford training groups. My co-therapist for this session was Rhonda Barovsky, PsyD, the Feeling Good podcast co-host. The full session will be broadcasted in two parts, starting today and finishing next week. Part 1 T = Testing At the start of the session, Cody’s depression score was only 6 out of 20, indicating minimal to mild de...2023-01-0946 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyAsk David: Why are People the Way They Are? with Special Guest, Dr. Matthew MayHere are the questions for today’s Ask David, featuring special guest, back by popular demand, the extraordinary Dr. Matt May, and of course, our super-special hostess, Dr. Rhonda Barovsky! Why is my dad the way he is? Why are people the way they are? What can you do about positive distortions? More Should Statements! How can you talk to someone who refuses to talk to you?  Why is my dad the way he is? Why are people the way they are? Hi Dr. Burns and Dr. Barovsky! I love your sho...2022-01-1053 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyAsk David, with Special Guest, Dr. Matthew May: Shoulds, Free Treatment, Blame, and More!272 Ask David, with Special Guest, Dr. Matthew May: Shoulds, Free Treatment, Blame, and More! Here are the questions for today’s Ask David, featuring special guest, Dr. Matt May, and, of course, Dr. Rhonda Barovsky! How can I turn off my Shoulds!? Is there a downside to treating people for free? What’s the difference between Feeling Great vs Feeling Good? Isn’t it important to blame the other person when that person really IS to blame? How can I turn off my Shoulds!? Nice podcast! (Maurice is referring to Part 2 of “I want to be a moth...2021-12-131h 05
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyWhat's an Intensive?Podcast 257: What's an Intensive? Today’s podcast features Dr. Lorraine Wong and Richard Lam who describe the intensive TEAM-CBT treatment program at the Feeling Good Institute in Mountain View, California. Dr. Wong is a board certified clinical psychologist and the Clinical Director of The Feeling Good Institute in Mountain View. Richard Lam is TEAM Certified Therapist, Trainer and Certification Program Manager at the Feeling Good Institute. An intensive is a departure from the conventional weekly 50-minute session and compresses an entire course of therapy into a brief period of time. David describes how he c...2021-08-3053 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyReflections on the Evolution of TEAMIn 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 of the content within the book, but...2021-02-0845 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyThe Jealousy Addiction! What Can You Do When Good Things Happen to Bad People?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 the detailed show notes for...2021-01-041h 17
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyMatter & Anti-Matter"I don't matter!" Did you ever feel like you aren’t important? Did you ever feel like you don’t matter? These thoughts are extremely common and can be extremely painful. I know from my clinical experience over the years, with more than 40,000 hours of therapy with people struggling with mild to extreme depression and anxiety. I know from personal experience as well, because I’ve been there personally at times! And one of the reasons I love doing therapy is because of the joy of helping someone transform these feelings of inadequacy and tears into feelings of joy and ex...2020-05-251h 54
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyHow to Crush Negative Thoughts: Mental Filter/Discounting the PositivesThis is the fourth in our podcasts series on the best techniques to crush each of the ten cognitive distortions from my book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Today, we focus on Mental Filtering and Discounting the Positive. (This will be the last Episode recorded remotely with poor sound quality. We thank you for your perseverance listening to it, and guarantee better sound quality in the future with our new recording equipment.) Mental Filtering, You focus on something(s) negative, like a mistake you made, and ignore or overlook the positives. This is like the drop of in...2020-05-1827 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyHow to Crush Negative Thoughts: OvergeneralizationThis is the third in our podcasts series on the best techniques to crush each of the ten cognitive distortions from my book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Today, we focus on Overgeneralization. There are two common forms of Overgeneralization: You generalize from some specific flaw or failure to your "Self." So, instead of telling yourself that you failed at this or that, you tell yourself that you are "a failure" or "a loser." You generalize from right now to the future, using words like "always" or "never." For example, you may tell yourself, "Trisha (or Jack...2020-05-1133 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyHow to Crush Negative Thoughts: All-or-Nothing ThinkingThis is the second in a series of podcasts by David and Rhonda focusing on the best techniques to crush each of the ten cognitive distortions I first published in my book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. Today, we focus on All-or-Nothing Thinking. that's where you look at the world in black-or-white categories, as if shades of gray do not exist. For example, if you're not a complete success you may tell yourself that you're a complete failure. All-or-Nothing Thinking is one of the most common cognitive distortions, and it causes or contributes to many common...2020-05-0437 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyHow to Crush Negative Thoughts: The Cognitive Distortion Starter Kit!This is the first in a series of podcasts by David and Rhonda focusing on the best techniques to crush each of the ten cognitive distortions in David’s book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. David and Rhonda discuss the amazing positive feedback that Rhonda received following her two recent podcasts doing live personal work. David emphasizes that being open and genuine about your own flaws and insecurities can often lead to far more meaningful relationships with others. This is a paradox, since we often hide our shortcomings, fearing others will judge and reject us if th...2020-04-2743 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy181: LIve Therapy with Sarah: Shrinks are Human, Too!In my workshops and weekly training group for community therapists at Stanford, we often include personal work as a part of the training. The personal work can help in several ways: When you’ve successfully done your own personal work, you will feel greater joy and energy in your personal life and in your clinical work as well. You will have a much deeper understanding of how TEAM-CBT actually works. You will be able to deliver faster and deeper therapy to your patients. You’ll be able to tell your patients, “I know how you feel, because I’ve been...2020-02-241h 55
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyLive Therapy with Sarah: Shrinks Are Human, Too!In my workshops and weekly training group for community therapists at Stanford, we often include personal work as a part of the training. The personal work can help in several ways: When you’ve successfully done your own personal work, you will feel greater joy and energy in your personal life and in your clinical work as well. You will have a much deeper understanding of how TEAM-CBT actually works. You will be able to deliver faster and deeper therapy to your patients. You’ll be able to tell your patients, “I know how you feel, because I’ve been...2020-02-241h 55
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy173: Dr. Amir Sabouri on the Human Side of MedicineThis will be our last podcast of 2019, so we wanted to make it something special. We also want to thank all of you for your support over the past year, and wish you all the very best in 2020! Thanks to all of you, we surpassed 1.5 million downloads this year, and will likely hit 2 million in the spring of 2020. If you like the Feeling Good Podcasts, please tell your friends and family members, as word of mouth is our best marketing by far. In addition, if you are a member of any mailing lists, send them this link...2019-12-3057 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyDr. Amir Sabouri on the Human Side of MedicineThis will be our last podcast of 2019, so we wanted to make it something special. We also want to thank all of you for your support over the past year, and wish you all the very best in 2020! Thanks to all of you, we surpassed 1.5 million downloads this year, and will likely hit 2 million in the spring of 2020. If you like the Feeling Good Podcasts, please tell your friends and family members, as word of mouth is our best marketing by far. In addition, if you are a member of any mailing lists, send them this link...2019-12-3057 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy150: I'm anxious but don't have any negative thoughts. What can I do?What can you do when you can’t identify your negative thoughts? Is it really true that our feelings always result from negative thoughts? How can I get over my public speaking anxiety? Rubens, a faithful and enthusiastic Feeling Good Podcast fan, sent me an email with a terrific question that has both practical and theoretical implications. He wrote: Dear Mr. David, I've read "Feeling Good" and I'm reading "When Panic Attacks" now. Both have and are helping me immensely. However, the one thing I have never und...2019-07-2238 minFeeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood TherapyI'm anxious, but I don't have any negative thoughts. What can I do?What can you do when you can’t identify your negative thoughts? Is it really true that our feelings always result from negative thoughts? How can I get over my public speaking anxiety? Rubens, a faithful and enthusiastic Feeling Good Podcast fan, sent me an email with a terrific question that has both practical and theoretical implications. He wrote: Dear Mr. David, I've read "Feeling Good" and I'm reading "When Panic Attacks" now. Both have and are helping me immensely. However, the one thing I have never und...2019-07-2238 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy142: Performance Anxiety: The Story of Rhonda, Part 1"I sound stupid! . . . Ouch!" Have you every struggled with performance anxiety, thinking you might fail or not be good enough? I think it is fair to say that every therapist in my Tuesday training group at Stanford has struggled with fairly intense feelings of anxiety and self-doubt, and perhaps you have, too, thinking you should be smarter or better than you are, and fearing that others would judge you if they saw your “true self.” In fact, I would suspect that most of our podcast fans have struggled with these feelings at some time during your life, and...2019-05-2755 minFeeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy142: Performance Anxiety: The Story of Rhonda, Part 1"I sound stupid! . . . Ouch!" Have you every struggled with performance anxiety, thinking you might fail or not be good enough? I think it is fair to say that every therapist in my Tuesday training group at Stanford has struggled with fairly intense feelings of anxiety and self-doubt, and perhaps you have, too, thinking you should be smarter or better than you are, and fearing that others would judge you if they saw your “true self.” In fact, I would suspect that most of our podcast fans have struggled with these feelings at some time during your life, and...2019-05-2755 minFeeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy133: Finale — Goodbye Fabrice! Hello Rhonda!Mission Accomplished! Dear Feeling Good Podcast fans, I am profoundly sad to say goodbye to my beloved friend and terrific podcast host, Dr. Fabrice Nye, who is leaving the podcast to start his own show this spring. I wish him well on his new podcast he'll be releasing soon. I'll share the specifics when they become available so loyal fans can tune in and follow him! What a joyous experience it has been working with Fabrice for the last three years. He proposed the idea of a weekly podcast in the fall of 2016...2019-03-2538 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy133: Finale — Goodbye Fabrice! Hello Rhonda!Mission Accomplished! Dear Feeling Good Podcast fans, I am profoundly sad to say goodbye to my beloved friend and terrific podcast host, Dr. Fabrice Nye, who is leaving the podcast to start his own show this spring. I wish him well on his new podcast he'll be releasing soon. I'll share the specifics when they become available so loyal fans can tune in and follow him! What a joyous experience it has been working with Fabrice for the last three years. He proposed the idea of a weekly podcast in the fall of 2016...2019-03-2538 minFeeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy129: Flexing the Mindfulness MuscleIn this role-reversal of the traditional Feeling Good Podcast, Dr. David Burns and his special guest, Dr. Rhonda Barovsky, interview Dr. Fabrice Nye, your beloved podcast host, on the topic of Mindfulness and Meditation, which are currently popular with the therapeutic community. Fabrice answers questions like these: What’s mindfulness? How does it differ from meditation? What’s the history of mindfulness as well as meditation? Did it originate with the Buddha, or did it date back even earlier? What are some of the goals and potential benefits of mindfulness? Why specific exercises can you do to d...2019-02-2531 min
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy129: Flexing the Mindfulness MuscleIn this role-reversal of the traditional Feeling Good Podcast, Dr. David Burns and his special guest, Dr. Rhonda Barovsky, interview Dr. Fabrice Nye, your beloved podcast host, on the topic of Mindfulness and Meditation, which are currently popular with the therapeutic community. Fabrice answers questions like these: What’s mindfulness? How does it differ from meditation? What’s the history of mindfulness as well as meditation? Did it originate with the Buddha, or did it date back even earlier? What are some of the goals and potential benefits of mindfulness? Why specific exercises can you do to d...2019-02-2531 min