Practical CBT Methods for Depression, Anxiety and Unwanted Habits
This course will give you a comprehensive set of tools to enhance your treatment of: depression, anxiety, and habits/addictions with state of the art CBT.
Jill Levitt, Ph.D.
6 weeks starting on 1/13/23 Fridays, 9am-10:45am Pacific Time (12-1:45pm ET)
Offers 10.5 CE Hours*
Provides 12 TEAM-CBT Units towards Level 1, 2 or 3 Certification
Therapist level: beginner through advanced
Need-based scholarships available. Email certification@feelinggoodinstitute.com to apply
Course Overview
Live online 6 week course with focus on setting up successful CBT methods for your patients. This course will give you a comprehensive set of tools to enhance your treatment of: depression, anxiety, and habits/addictions with state of the art CBT. You will learn how to create and use powerful thought logs with your patients, then transform them into cognitive role playing methods for the treatment of depression, various exposure methods for anxiety, and the addiction/habit log and devil’s advocate technique for the treatment of habits/addictions. During this course there will be many opportunities for practice and role-playing.
Attendance at all 6 sessions and completion of CE survey after this course is required to receive CE certificate of completion.
Completion of this course provides units towards Level 1, 2, or 3 TEAM-CBT certification. Note, there are additional requirements for Levels 2 and 3 Certification which can be found on the Certification Requirements Table.
- Use daily mood logs effectively to set up multiple cognitive behavioral techniques
- Describe the use of cognitive distortions on the daily mood log
- Demonstrate a cognitive role playing technique
- Describe the rationale for exposure in treating anxiety disorders
- Design exposure exercises to treat anxiety
- Explain the concept of interoceptive exposure
- Describe cognitive exposure
- Identify and change positive distortions in tempting thoughts in the treatment of habits and addictions
- Describe the devil’s advocate technique for treating habits and addictions
Session 1: The Art of the Setup: The Daily Mood Log, Eliciting Negative Thoughts, Rules for Negative Thoughts, Identifying Cognitive Distortions, The Straightforward Technique.
Session 2: Truth- and Logic-Based Techniques: Examine the Evidence, Re-attribution, Be Specific and Let’s Define Terms.
Session 3: Cognitive Role Playing Techniques: The Double Standard Technique & Externalization of Voices Technique.
Session 4: Introduction to Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders. Psycho-education on the nature of anxiety. The rationale for exposure. Types of exposures: cognitive exposure, interoceptive exposure, situational exposure. Tips for introducing and conducting situational exposures. Building an exposure hierarchy.
Session 5: Interoceptive Exposure and Cognitive Exposure for Anxiety Disorders: Symptom induction, interoceptive exposure, and cognitive exposure.
Session 6: Identify and Change “Tempting Thoughts” in Habits and Addictions: Use of the Addiction/Habit Log, identify positive distortions and the Devil’s Advocate Technique.
FGI stands against discrimination. We believe in acceptance, inclusion, and equality. Discrimination against people based on identify status (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ability status, country of origin, religion) is harmful and not tolerated. We understand the need for formative feedback and learning, thus we will make every effort to invite community members to humbly learn and grow when missteps occur. Hate speech, discriminatory practices, or harmful interventions (defined by clinician’s governing board) may result in removal from this training opportunity.
This includes public statements or behaviors made outside of the trainings. I/we maintain the right to deny or revoke access to this training space if safety of the community cannot be maintained because of a person causing harm to others. In the case that this policy is invoked, we will follow guidelines to offer a learning opportunity and then determine whether safety of the community can be maintained or if the person will be removed from the training space. Guidelines include steps such as talking with the person, providing opportunities to learn (e.g., addressing the harm, renouncing a problematic statement or behavior), and consulting with other trainers.
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. This course has been approved by FGI as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 10.5 CEs. NAADAC Provider #149212. 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 as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/30/2021-05/30/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 10.5 continuing education credits. 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.
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. She 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. She 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.