Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

This podcast features David D. Burns MD, author of "Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy," describing powerful new techniques to overcome depression and anxiety and develop greater joy and self-esteem. For therapists and the general public alike!

Episodes

July 28, 2025 60 mins

Part 2 of Our Personal Work with Rhonda

The Surprising Conclusion
of Rhonda's Session with Matt and David

Last week, you heard Part 1 of our personal work--a single two hour therapy session--with Rhonda, focusing on her recent shocking diagnosis of a cancerous and potentially fatal lymphatic tumor in her neck. We did initial T = ...

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Part 1 of Our Personal Work with Rhonda

The doctor said I have cancer! 

Are feelings of depression, fear, anger, hopelessness, and more inevitable if you have experienced a severely traumatic event? Nearly all human beings would say it IS inevitable.

But are they right? If your doctor just tol...

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Ask David: Chasing, Commitment Problems

Sadness as Celebration

Is Autism Increasing? 

The answers to today’s questions are brief and were written prior to the show. Listen to the live discussion for a more in-depth discussion of each question. Today’s live podcast discussion with Rhonda, Matt, and David was very energe...
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    Ask David: The Fear of Being Abandoned

    Living with Someone Who's Depressed

    Can Someone Else's Depression Depress You!

    The answers to today’s questions are brief and were written prior to the show. Listen to the live discussion for a more in-depth discussion of each question.

    Today’s questions.

    1. N...

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    Dating, Part 3

    Flirting Secrets, Safety, and More!

    Today we feature, Dr. Leigh Harrington and Dr. Angela Krumm, who will tell us how to flirt and date skillfully. Both Leigh and Angela are highly advanced TEAM CBT therapists and beloved friends and long-time members of our TEAM Community.

    Bio sketches for both go here. Include the idea that Leigh...

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    Dating, Part 2

    Do you need some love?

    Expert dating advice today!

    Today we feature two of our favorite people, Dr. Kyle Jones and Dr. Carly Zankman, who will discuss many aspects of dating. Both Kyle and Carly are advanced and highly effective TEAM CBT therapists with tons of experience in dating, and of course, in tre...

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    Dating, Part 1

    Navigating the Dreaded
    (But Sometimes Needed) Dating Apps!

    Today we started a series on one of my favorite topics: dating. When I was in clinical practice in Philadelphia, a large proportion of my patients self-identified as single, without partner, so this was one of my favorite problems to help people with, and why I wrote the book, Intim...

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    June 9, 2025 93 mins

    What's the Latest on The Feeling Great App?

    Featuring Jason Meno and Adam Holman 

    Adam Holman and his loving cat! The feature...

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    Teen Troubles? Don’t Freak Out!

    Featuring Dr. Taylor Chesney

    Today, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Taylor Chesney to our podcast on troubled teens—what actually works! Taylor has been on a number of previous podcasts, and has been a beloved member of the TEAM community for many years! We were lucky to have her here in person as a member of our weekly TEAM...

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    450: ASK DAVID, Featuring Dr. Matthew May

    "All About Anger"

    Is resentment ever rational or logical?

    Are perceptions of injustice always present when people feel angry?

    What’s the best way to respond to an angry criticism?

    The following answers we...

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    Stories from My Hippy Days, Part 2

    Featuring David and Rhonda

    A year or more ago we did a Part 1 podcast on stories from my days as a Stanford Medical student in the late 1960s. This was the Hippy Era and the famous “Summer of Love.”

    A young man, Clyde, recently asked if we’d do Part 2, since we didn’t get to all the stories the first time around...

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    448: Ask David, featuring Adam Hollman

    Relationship woes--what should I do?

    How can animals have feelings if they can't think?

    How often should I fill out the Daily Mood Log?

    Why can't husbands express their feelings?

     

    Today we are join...

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    Perfectionism Update

    Featuring Adam Holman

    Today we are joined by Adam Holman, LCSW. Adam has recently left his full time clinical practice in Arizona to join our Feeling Great app team here in San Francisco. I think you’ll be delighted by his warmth and wisdom. Although he works with us full-time, he still practices one day per week and specializes in X ...
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    446 Who am I?

    Medical Help that Saves Children’s Lives

    Featuring Dr. Rachel Sewall:

    “I want to shout from the mountain tops!”

    Today we hear from Rachel Sewell, M.D., a Stanford pediatric endocrinologist who provides medically necessary care for transgender and gender diverse young p...

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    Secrets of Superb Interviewing--

    How to Be Everyone's Number 1 Choice!

    Today we feature our beloved Kyle Jones, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist who suggested we might do a really cool podcast on the interviewing skills featured in Chapter 16 of my Feeling Good Handbook. Rhonda and I are absolutely delighted to welcome Kyle for his third appearance on to the...

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    I’m angry! A Once-Undocumented
    Immigrant Speaks from the Heart--

    Live Work with Sunny, Part 2

    Last week you heard Part 1 of the Live work with Sunny, who’s struggling with radically conflicting emotions. On the one hand, he has finally achieved his dream of an incredibly happy and fulfilling life, but he is frequently plunged into profound despair, fear, a...

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    I’m angry! A Once-Undocumented
    Immigrant Speaks from the Heart--

    Live Work with Sunny, Part 1

    Sunny Choi is a beloved member of the TEAM community. He grew up in Hong Kong before emigrating with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old. He graduated from UCLA with a major in engineering, completed a master’s degree in Engineering Management...

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    Ask David: The Awesome Hidden Emotion Technique

    Featuring Matthew May, MD

    with Rhonda and David

    The following answers to Ask David questions were written prior to the live podcast where Matt, David, Rhonda, and others discuss the questions in real time. Their answers may differ from Dr. Burns responses listed below.

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    Ask David

    My friend won’t say thank you!

    Dating Anxiety

    Religion vs. Psychotherapy

    We want to remind you about an awesome virtual workshop on habits and addictions that Dr. Jill Levitt and David will be presenting on March 28, 2025 We will feature powerful new paradoxical techniques...

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    March 17, 2025 49 mins

    Getting to Know David

    David Answers Personal Questions!

    We all know David Burns as the creator of TEAM-CBT, but not many people get to know David, the person. It is fun to know David the person, because he is just like all of us. He is a real person (not a robot), full of life and love.

    I want everyone in our audience to be able to relate to Davi...
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