David Burns – Overcoming Resistance with Dr. David Burns: The Secret to Better Outcomes In Less Time

Do you have clients that are struggling to find lasting relief from anxiety, depression, addiction and relationship problems—despite multiple sessions of work?

David Burns, MD, one of the originators of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and an expert in treating depression and anxiety, explains that therapists often overlook a key element to change—the client’s own willingness to get better. These are the clients that consistently push back against your therapy methods and then complain about the lack of therapeutic progress.

That’s why he developed the evidence-based T.E.A.M. approach to therapy that is designed to help you improve your ability to offer rapid outcomes—regardless of what therapeutic method you prefer. Crafted from over 40 years of research and clinical practice, this powerful approach offers an effective roadmap to motivate the client to work along with your therapy methods instead of being combative to them—which can drastically speed up the timeframe for healing and elimination of symptoms.

Now in this revolutionary online master class, you’ll have the unique opportunity to see first-hand the dramatic results that this approach can offer. You’ll meet a client named Karen who has been living what she describes as “nine years of hell”— time of severe depression following a traumatic experience. Until now, despite numerous treatments and therapy sessions, nothing has helped her. Watch as Dr. Burns guides Karen step by step to help her break free from the crippling anxiety and guilt, to finally realize extraordinary resolution—all in one moving and incredible session.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn to speed up healing and transform your client outcomes with Dr. David Burns’ practice-enhancing T.E.A.M. approach.

What You’ll Learn In Overcoming Resistance with Dr. David Burns: The Secret to Better Outcomes In Less Time

What’s Included:

• Discover the scientifically-informed, four-stage process pioneered by David Burns that “melts” resistance.
• Watch David at work in a clinical session with a client who’s been struggling for 9 years with crippling anxiety, depression, and guilt.
• Experience the clinical process from intake to incredible resolution.
• Gain exclusive insight as David shares the thinking behind his clinical decisions at critical points in the session.
• Listen to David Burns answer questions on how to best apply the T.E.A.M. approach to your practice in a recorded Q&A call.

Session 1: Introducing a New Approach to Client Resistance
Learn about David’s T.E.A.M. approach for overcoming resistance. Find out how the elements of the process—testing, empathy, agenda setting, and methods—combine to “melt” resistance, motivate clients, and result in more positive outcomes. The session covers:

• The nature of client resistance and how it prevents therapeutic change
• Using paradoxical agenda-setting before other interventions to make sure that the client is really ready to change
• Methods that intensify the therapist–client alliance and generate deep motivation for the client’s full engagement in treatment

Session 2: Melting Resistance: Clinical Demo and Analysis I
Watch David Burns implement his T.E.A.M. approach with a client who’s struggled for 9 years with crippling symptoms from a traumatic event. The 90-minute session combines clinical video with analysis and covers:

• How to bring a client’s resistance into awareness
• The process for identifying the positives hidden in negative beliefs
• The 5 steps of paradoxical agenda-setting

Session 3: From Resistance to Healing: Clinical Demo and Analysis II
The clinical video and analysis continues in this 90-minute session concluding with a dramatic positive outcome. It features agenda-setting and use of methods—the final 2 phases of the T.E.A.M. process. You’ll learn:

• More detail about using paradoxical agenda-setting to melt resistance
• How to customize therapy by varying intensity and method
• Methods for “testing” and tracking the changes in a client’s beliefs

Session 4: Preparing Your Client to Prevent Relapse
David Burns and Richard Simon follow up the extraordinary single-session resolution seen in the clinical demonstration with a detailed discussion of relapse—why it occurs and how to prevent it. The session covers:

• The importance of addressing relapse prevention as part of therapy
• How to expose the negative self-talk that underlies relapse and help clients practice defeating it
• Necessary steps for creating an effective relapse prevention plan

Session 5: Recorded Q&A call with David Burns
Listen to the recorded Q&A call with David Burns and Rich Simon to learn more about overcoming client resistance, the clinical demonstration, and how the T.E.A.M. approach can help you in your practice.

About David Burns

David Burns, MD, psychiatrist, behavioral science researcher, and author of eleven books, including the phenomenally successful Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, is one of the most original thinkers in the mental health field. A central figure in the development of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), Dr. Burns’s entertaining teaching style has made him a popular lecturer for mental health professionals throughout the country as well as a frequent guest on national radio and television programs. He has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Through the Media Award from the Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology.

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