Crash Course in Core Skills for Effective Therapy is a 5 hour, video-based, home study course that is designed ONLY as a free add-on to Community lead Workshops. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE UNLESS you are registered in one of the Community lead Workshop.

You will learn the essential skills to become an effective therapist, and eligible license types will earn 5 CE*s.

If you complete the Crash Course in Core Skills for Effective Therapy as well as a community lead workshop(7units+) from a level 4 or 5 trainer, you are eligible for free Level 1 TEAM-CBT Certification.

Course Overview
With lively videos, quizzes, therapy role plays, case examples, and interviews with the source - Dr. David Burns, you will learn the processes of therapy that have been shown to have the greatest impact on positive therapeutic outcomes.

First you’ll learn about measurement, also known as routine outcome monitoring. Next, you’ll learn therapeutic empathy skills that will help you build a strong therapeutic alliance with your patients. You’ll learn step-by-step how to reduce resistance and boost motivation so that you can connect with, and help, even your most challenging patients. And finally, you will learn many cognitive techniques, such as examine the evidence, re-attribution, the survey technique, and more! At the end of the course, you will be given a test to ensure you have learned the skills. Passing this test is required to receive CE credit and TEAM-CBT Level 1 certification. You will have 2 "re-take" opportunities to pass the final test (3 chances in total).

By: Jill Levitt, Ph.D. Feeling Good Institute
Featuring David Burns, M.D.
Offers 5 CE Hours*
Therapist level: beginner


Learning Objectives:
1) Identify two benefits of using measurement (Routine Outcome Monitoring) in therapy
2) Describe two ways to make the best use of measurement (Routine Outcome Monitoring) in therapy
3) Name two empathy skills that will help you connect with a hopeless patient
4) Identify one common theme of outcome resistance for anxiety
5) Describe two cognitive distortions

Homestudy 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, #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 5 clinical continuing education credits. 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. 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.

Instructor Biography
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.