Feeling Great App Focuses on TEAM-CBT for Depression Treatment
The Feeling Great app, developed by Jeremy Karmel in collaboration with Dr. David Burns, is designed to deliver TEAM-CBT (Testing, Empathy, Agenda-Setting, Methods, and Measurement) for treating severe depression. Jeremy Karmel's personal experience with a dramatic recovery from severe depression using TEAM-CBT after numerous unsuccessful therapies fueled his passion for the approach and the app's development. The app and its underlying philosophy emphasize the importance of measuring patient progress, challenging the common practice in psychotherapy where progress is often not systematically tracked. Dr. Burns and Karmel advocate for a more effective, accountable, and evidence-based approach to psychotherapy, questioning why some individuals remain in therapy for extended periods without significant improvement. They highlight concerns such as financial incentives potentially prolonging therapy, therapists' allegiance to specific schools of thought, and the inaccuracy of clinical intuition without objecti... 
