Course Description:
Almost everyone struggles with a bad habit or addiction such as drinking too much, too much screen time, not enough exercise, overeating, procrastination, and so on. With the right set of tools you can establish healthier habits for your patients and yourself. In this free 1 hour webinar taught by Richard Lam, LMFT, we will teach you a step-by-step approach to create healthier habits using cognitive behavioral therapy for overcoming tempting thoughts and situations.
You will learn:
1. How to identify tempting situations and tempting thoughts
2. Tools to overcome resistance to change
3. Techniques to create healthier habits

Learning Objectives:
Following completion of the webinar, you will be able to:
1. Identify tempting situations and tempting thoughts
2. Describe the Devil's Advocate technique for challenging tempting thoughts

This is an asynchronous (pre-recorded) webinar. In order to obtain CE credit you must pass (70% or higher) the knowledge test and complete the CE survey.

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. 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 to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Feeling Good Institute maintains responsibility for this course. Ace provider approval period: 05/30/2024-05/30/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit. 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.

Instructor Bio:
Richard Lam is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Mountain View, California. He a graduate of Palo Alto University. He currently provides short-term therapy for anxiety, OCD, habits/addictions, depression, and relationship concerns using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Richard also trains other therapists in David Burn's model of CBT called TEAM Therapy. He is a certified Level 5 Master Therapist and Trainer in TEAM-CBT Therapy.