476: David and Jill's Amazing Exposure Webinar Part 1 of 2

David and Jill's Amazing Exposure Webinar

Part 1 of 2

Today, you will hear part 1 of the Webinar that Dr. Jill Levitt and I did on September 11^th of the fine points of exposure techniques for anxiety disorders. More than 2,000 individuals (mainly therapists, but many general public as well) registered for this event.

It was super well received, thanks in large part to Jill’s super awesome teaching skills! I feel so lucky every time we teach together. In part 1 today, you will hear about an overview of TEAM CBT, as well as the four treatment models we use with every person who is struggling with anxiety:

1. The Motivational Model
2. The Cognitive Model
3. The Exposure Model
4. The Hidden Emotion Model

You will also see a dramatic example of the use of a powerful cognitive technique (the Experimental Technique) with Terri, a woman who’d struggled for ten years with extreme panic attacks and depression. You will see the exact moment of recovery, when her uncontrollable sobbing suddenly turned into uncontrollable laughter, joy, and relief.

This may be the most dramatic psychotherapy example ever recorded. Although this podcast of the webinar is in audio only, you can also SEE this dramatic segment on YouTube at

LINK to TERRI VIDEO

Next week you will hear part 2 of that webinar, with Jill’s fantastic teaching on the fine points of exposure, including the importance of recognizing the “Safety Behaviors” that sabotage effective treatment. You will hear the dramatic story of a woman who recovered from more than 20 years of OCD / germ phobia in less than one minute while attending David’s free weekly psychotherapy seminar at Stanford. You will also learn about “Memory Rescripting,” and how it suddenly changed the life of a veteran who’d lost the capacity to feel human feelings following a traumatic experience in Vietnam 25 years earlier. 

Thanks for listening. Please let us know if you want future webinars presenting as podcasts. We will also publish them in their entirety on our YouTube Feeling Great channel, so the additional publication on a podcast may be overkill. Let us know!

Warmly, Rhonda, Jill, and David