'Identity-First' Habit Formation Worksheet
Helps a client define the person they want to be before choosing the habits to support that identity.
Tools
Directive Library
567 printable therapeutic directives — ready to hand to your client at the end of the session.
'Peak Experience' Deconstruction Worksheet
Helps a client identify core values and strengths by analyzing a past moment of fulfillment.
'Stay or Go' Decision-Making Matrix for a Relationship
Structures the pros and cons of staying in or leaving a relationship across multiple life domains.
"I Don't Know" Pattern Log
Track when and how a client says 'I don't know' across sessions until the type — protective, access, or performative — becomes identifiable.
A 'Both/And' Grid for Grieving Someone Who is Still Alive
Helps clients hold the dual reality of loving the person who is here and grieving the person who is.
A 'Dealbreaker' Identification and Communication Worksheet
This tool helps a client clarify their absolute non-negotiables in a relationship and plan how to.
A 'Good-Better-Best' Daily Goal Setting Grid
Structures goals into three tiers to prevent all-or-nothing thinking and maintain consistency.
A 'Keystone Habit' Identification Worksheet
This worksheet helps a client find a single pivotal habit that could trigger a cascade of other.
A 'Life Pie' Chart for Balancing Personal Identity Roles
Visually represents the balance of different roles in a client's life to identify over-investment.
A 'Memory Harvest' Questionnaire to Give to Family Members
This directive provides a list of questions for a client to ask relatives to gather stories about a.
A 'What Did I Miss?' Checklist to Counter Groupthink
This checklist encourages a client to play devil's advocate or systematically consider alternative.
A Checklist for Evaluating a Decision Independent of Popular Opinion
Challenges the bandwagon effect by forcing an evaluation of a choice based on personal values not.
A Checklist for Manually Verifying an Automated Recommendation
Counters automation bias by providing a structure for human-led verification of system outputs.
A Co-Parenting 'Business Plan' for Post-Divorce Communication
Helps separated parents establish clear protocols and logistics for co-parenting communication.
A Decision-Making Checklist to Counter the Bandwagon Effect
Client makes choices based on what others are doing or what seems culturally expected, and wakes up realizing the choice was not actually theirs.
A Framework for Personal Effectiveness
A Framework for Personal Effectiveness
A Grid for Plotting Personal Energy vs. Time of Day
This directive helps a client identify their chronotype and schedule tasks according to their.
A Hierarchy for Re-engaging with an Avoided Hobby or Interest
This directive provides a structured way to gradually reconnect with a meaningful activity that has.
A Life-Stage Transition Mapping Worksheet
This worksheet helps a client process a major life transition by mapping what they are letting go.
A Log of 'Grief Ambushes' and Self-Soothing Responses
This log helps a client track unexpected waves of grief and identify effective immediate coping.
A Pre-Termination Checklist for Difficult Client Relationships
This checklist helps a practitioner document the steps taken and rationale for terminating services.
A Preparation Checklist for Court Testimony as a Treating Practitioner
Helps a practitioner organize their thoughts and records when subpoenaed for court.
A Project Planning Worksheet to Address the Planning Fallacy
This template forces a client to break a project into parts and estimate time based on past.
A Relationship Autopsy Questionnaire for a Recent Breakup
This questionnaire provides a structured way for a client to reflect on a past relationship and.
A Relationship Closure Narrative
Helps a client create a coherent story of a relationship's end to facilitate moving on.
A Rupture Log to Identify Argument Patterns
This log helps a couple track the triggers; escalation points; and repair attempts in their.
A Self-Assessment for Practitioner Self-Disclosure Decisions
Helps a practitioner evaluate the clinical rationale and potential risks of a specific.
A Self-Audit Checklist for Clinical Note-Taking
This checklist helps a practitioner review their own notes for quality; completeness; and ethical.
A Structured Mediation Agenda for an Inter-Staff Conflict
Provides a neutral framework for a manager to mediate a dispute between colleagues.
A Template for a "Repair Attempt" After an Argument
A couple struggles to reconnect after a conflict.
A Template for an Employee's Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)
This is a ready-to-use document for HR managers to outline specific performance issues and.
A Template for Communicating Needs to a Support Network During Grief
This template helps a grieving person ask for specific; practical help from friends and family.
A Template for Responding Ethically to a Negative Online Review
Provides a HIPAA-compliant and professional way to respond to public criticism without violating.
Accommodation Pattern Inventory
Accommodation Pattern Inventory
Acknowledgment Planning
Acknowledgment Planning
Action & Outcome Review
Action & Outcome Review
Action Bias: Proven Path vs. New Path
Action Bias: Proven Path vs. New Path
Action Planning Framework
Action Planning Framework
Action Priority Grid
Action Priority Grid
Action-Hesitation Analysis
Action-Hesitation Analysis
Actions and Outcomes
Actions and Outcomes
Activity Priority Matrix
Activity Priority Matrix
Activity vs. Meaning and Energy Matrix for Burnout Analysis
Client is overwhelmed by work or responsibility and cannot see clearly which activities are necessary versus which are optional or obsolete.
After-Action Review
After-Action Review
Agoraphobia Symptom Checklist
Agoraphobia Symptom Checklist
Agreement of Financial Responsibility
Agreement of Financial Responsibility
Ambiguous Loss Worksheet for an Estranged Family Member
Helps a client name the specific ambiguities and contradictions of grieving someone who is still.
An 'Expertise Calibration' Worksheet to Counter the Dunning-Kruger Effect
This worksheet guides a client to realistically assess their knowledge in a specific area by.
Analysis of Influential Language
Analysis of Influential Language
Analysis of Undisclosed Problems
Analysis of Undisclosed Problems
Anger to Action Inventory
Anger to Action Inventory
Anger: Functional vs. Dysfunctional
Anger: Functional vs. Dysfunctional
Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence Log for Child Defiance
Parent reacts to child defiance in the moment, and the cycle repeats without the parent understanding what actually sets the behavior off.
Anticipatory Grief Log for an Upcoming Medical Procedure
Client faces a scheduled medical procedure that will change them physically or functionally, and the grief is complicated by hope and fear.
Apology Necessity Checklist
Helps a client differentiate situations that require an apology from those that do not.
Appeasement Language Audit
Appeasement Language Audit
Around-the-IDK Observation Log
Capture the clinical material surrounding 'I don't know' responses — the context, the body signals, and what the client says after — which is often richer than what the question was asking for.
Assertion Inventory
Assertion Inventory
Assertiveness Self-Assessment
Assertiveness Self-Assessment
Assessing a Relationship's "Emotional Bank Account"
This assessment helps a couple quantify the balance of positive and negative interactions in their.
Assessing Alternative Explanations
Assessing Alternative Explanations
Assessing Family Dynamics
Assessing Family Dynamics
Assessing Social Energy Sources
Assessing Social Energy Sources
Assessing Your Decision-Making Pattern
Assessing Your Decision-Making Pattern
Assessing Your Primary Motivator
Assessing Your Primary Motivator
Assessment of Communication Patterns
Assessment of Communication Patterns
Assessment of Metacognitive Beliefs About Worry
This assessment helps identify a client's beliefs about the usefulness of worrying; for example.
Assignment Framing Template
Design the framing language for a between-session directive before the session — so the assignment arrives as an invitation, not a test.
Attachment Pattern Assessment
Attachment Pattern Assessment
Attachment Style Reflection for a Specific Conflict
This questionnaire prompts a client to analyze a recent conflict through the lens of their.
Attribution Analysis for a Recent Success and Failure
Challenges self-serving bias by having a client examine their role in both a positive and negative.
Attribution Shift Exercise for Actor-Observer Bias
Client attributes their own mistakes to circumstance but interprets others' mistakes as character flaws, breeding resentment and distorted relationships.
Barriers to Direct Communication
Barriers to Direct Communication
Behavior & Outcome Log
Behavior & Outcome Log
Behavior Tracking Sheet
Behavior Tracking Sheet
Behavioral Experiment for Making a Reversible Low-Stakes Decision
Provides a structured exercise for practicing decision-making and tolerating the outcome.
Behavioral Experiment for Overcoming Performance Anxiety
The client avoids a specific performance situation due to a catastrophic prediction about the.
Behavioral Experiment for Tolerating Positive Feelings
This directive addresses the fear of happiness or success by having the client experiment with.
Behavioral Experiment for Tolerating Taboo or Intrusive Thoughts
Client struggles with intrusive thoughts on taboo topics and responds by mental avoidance or reassurance-seeking, which keeps the thoughts amplified and distressing.
Behavioral Experiment to Test an Initial 'Anchoring' Price or Estimate
This directive encourages a client to actively seek disconfirming information after receiving an.
Behavioral Experiment to Test the "Spotlight Effect"
This experiment has a client deliberately perform a small imperfect action in public to test how.
Behavioral Hierarchy for Re-engaging in Intimate Non-Sexual Touch
Partner has withdrawn from all affectionate touch due to shame, trauma, or avoidance, and the couple's physical and emotional connection has collapsed.
Behavioral Indicators of Focused Attention
Behavioral Indicators of Focused Attention
Behavioral Rehearsal Plan for a Feared Social Event
Provides a structured way to practice and prepare for a specific anxiety-provoking social situation.
Behavioral Self-Assessment
Behavioral Self-Assessment
Behavioral Sequence Record
Behavioral Sequence Record
Behavioral Task for Completing One Small Part of an Avoided Task
This directive helps break inertia by focusing on completing a minimal unit of a larger dreaded task.
Behavioral Task for Delaying a Compulsive Checking Behavior
This directive helps clients with OCD-like tendencies increase their tolerance for uncertainty.
Behavioral Task for Expressing Non-Transactional Appreciation
This task directs a client to notice and acknowledge a partner's action that has no direct benefit.
Behavioral Task for Initiating a Small-Talk Conversation
This directive provides a structured low-stakes exercise for clients to practice starting.
Behavioral Task for Re-engaging with a Meaningful Activity Post-Loss
This directive structures a small; manageable step for a client to reconnect with a valued part of.
Behavioral Task for Re-establishing a Post-Divorce Co-Parenting Routine
This directive outlines a specific actionable plan for creating stability for children after a.
Behavioral Task for Resisting 'Mental Review' of Past Conversations
This task interrupts the post-event rumination common in social anxiety by scheduling and then.
Behavioral Task for Sorting a Deceased Loved One's Belongings
This directive provides a structured and paced approach to the overwhelming task of going through a.
Behavioral Task for Tolerating Uncertainty
This task structures a small deliberate action where the client must endure not knowing an outcome.
Behavioral Task: Adding a 'Point of Friction' to an Unwanted Habit
This task makes an undesirable habit more difficult to perform; thereby reducing its frequency.
Belief Assessment Record
Belief Assessment Record
Belief Component Analysis
Belief Component Analysis
Belief Restructuring
Belief Restructuring
Belief-Evidence Record
Belief-Evidence Record
Beneath the Anger' Questionnaire for Difficult Conversations
This tool helps a client identify the primary emotion (like fear or hurt) hidden beneath their.
Between-Session System Planner
Build a personalized homework structure for a specific client based on what their compliance history has demonstrated actually gets done.
Body Scan Log for Unexplained Physical Anxiety Symptoms
Helps clients identify patterns in physical anxiety manifestations that are not tied to specific.
Boundary Inventory
Boundary Inventory
Boundary Setting Script for an Overbearing Parent
Client's parent intrudes on decisions, criticizes choices, or demands frequent contact, and the client oscillates between compliance and resentment.
Breaking Problem Patterns
Breaking Problem Patterns
Building a Graded Exposure Hierarchy for a Specific Fear
A client is willing to confront a fear but needs a structured.
Building Self-Trust: A Log of Accurate Intuitions and Good Decisions
Systematically collects evidence of a client's own good judgment to build confidence over time.
Burnout Cascade Mapping
Client is burned out and attributes it to being busy, but the actual cascade is more specific: exhaustion triggers irritability, which damages relationships, which creates isolation, which deepens exhaustion.
Challenging Personalization Log
Challenging Personalization Log
Changing Viewpoint Worksheet
Changing Viewpoint Worksheet
Checklist for Ethical Considerations in a Dual Relationship
This checklist guides a practitioner through the key ethical questions to consider before entering.
Client Intake Form
Client Intake Form
Client Theory of Change Template
Document what a client believes will help them — so the treatment approach enters through their frame rather than contradicting it.
Client-Initiated Termination Letter Template
A client wants to end services but is avoiding the conversation.
Co-Parenting Communication Protocol Template
Separated or divorced parents struggle with unstructured communication about the child, and every message triggers defensiveness, misunderstanding, or conflict escalation.
Co-Parenting Decision Log for a Child with Mental Health Needs
Separated or divorced parents disagree on how to support a child with mental health needs, and disagreement becomes another stressor for the child.
Cognitive Bias Checklist
Cognitive Bias Checklist
College Transition Scenarios and Resources Map
Student is apprehensive about college and has vague fears but no concrete plan for the specific scenarios they are most worried about.
Communication Audit
Communication Audit
Communication Channel Analysis
Communication Channel Analysis
Communication Outcomes Matrix
Communication Outcomes Matrix
Communication Patterns Inventory
Communication Patterns Inventory
Communication Stance Inventory
Communication Stance Inventory
Communication Stances Under Pressure
Communication Stances Under Pressure
Community Outreach & Practice Building Protocol
Community Outreach & Practice Building Protocol
Competence Inventory & Action Plan
Competence Inventory & Action Plan
Competing Response Training Plan for a Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior
Helps a client practice a physically incompatible behavior to replace an unwanted automatic habit.
Concept Analysis
Concept Analysis
Conflict Response Patterns
Conflict Response Patterns
Constructing a "No" Statement to a High-Stakes Request
A client needs to decline a significant request from a family member or friend without resorting to.
Constructive Outlook: Behavioral Indicators
Constructive Outlook: Behavioral Indicators
Controllable vs. Uncontrollable Factors
Controllable vs. Uncontrollable Factors
Converting a Complaint into a Request
The client's communication in a key relationship is dominated by criticism rather than clear.
Converting Liabilities into Strategic Assets
Converting Liabilities into Strategic Assets
Converting Setbacks into Strategy
Converting Setbacks into Strategy
Core Belief Form Test #1
A structured form for identifying and rating core beliefs.
Core Beliefs Inventory
Core Beliefs Inventory
Core Life Questions
Core Life Questions
Core Motivations Assessment
Core Motivations Assessment
Core Motivations Assessment
Core Motivations Assessment
Core Priorities Assessment
Core Priorities Assessment
Cost-Benefit Analysis for a Decision to Counter Loss Aversion
This tool prompts a client to weigh the potential gains of a change equally against the potential.
Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Specific Safety Behavior
This grid requires a client to weigh the short-term relief of a safety behavior against its.
Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Specific Worry
The client accepts a specific worry as necessary without examining its actual utility or harm.
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Chronic Conflict Avoidance
Makes the long-term costs of avoiding necessary conflict explicit and tangible.
Costly Behaviors Inventory
Costly Behaviors Inventory
Council of Advisors Exercise
Council of Advisors Exercise
Creating a "Continuing Bonds" Action Plan
The client feels that the only way to grieve is to sever connection with the deceased.
Creating a Temptation-Resistant Environment Plan
This directive guides a client to proactively modify their physical and social environment to.
Cyberbullying Evidence and Impact Log
Student is being cyberbullied but has not documented the scope or impact clearly enough for adults to take action, or the evidence disappears into context.
Cyberbullying Incident Documentation Template for Students
Student is being cyberbullied but has not documented incidents, so teachers and parents have no clear picture of the scope or pattern of harm.
Daily Trust Inventory
Daily Trust Inventory
De-Catastrophizing Worksheet: "Playing the Tape Forward"
The client's mind automatically jumps to the worst-case scenario and gets stuck there without.
Decision & Action Record
Decision & Action Record
Decision Matrix to Counter Status Quo Bias
Client continues a situation that is not working because changing it feels harder than staying, and the costs of the status quo go unexamined.
Decision Pattern Assessment
Decision Pattern Assessment
Decision Point Analysis
Decision Point Analysis
Decision-Making & Motivation Source Assessment
Decision-Making & Motivation Source Assessment
Decision-Making Grid for Disclosing a Mental Health Diagnosis at Work
Client oscillates between wanting to disclose a mental health condition at work and fearing judgment, legal risk, or termination, and cannot make a clear decision.
Decision-Making Worksheet for Overcoming Analysis Paralysis
Helps a client weigh options when the fear of making the wrong choice is paralyzing.
Deconstructing a 'Crave-to-Binge' Cycle for Emotional Eating
This directive maps the specific triggers thoughts and feelings that precede an episode of.
Deconstructing a 'Success Story' to Identify Survivorship Bias
This task helps a client analyze a popular success story to identify the hidden privileges and luck.
Deconstructing a Problem Pattern
Deconstructing a Problem Pattern
Deconstructing a Worry Chain
A client gets stuck in a recursive loop of "what if" thoughts without reaching a conclusion.
Deconstructing Contamination Fears: A Graded Exposure Plan for OCD
Client with contamination obsessions compulsively avoids or cleans to neutralize anxiety, and the avoidance has narrowed their life significantly.
Deconstructing the Multiple Losses of a Job Loss
Helps a client identify and mourn the secondary losses associated with unemployment like routine or.
Defensive Reaction Checklist
Defensive Reaction Checklist
Defining a Life Without the Problem
Defining a Life Without the Problem
Defining a Solution: A Behavioral Outline
Defining a Solution: A Behavioral Outline
Defining the Terms of Engagement for a Low-Contact Relationship
Assists a client in clarifying personal rules and limits for interacting with a difficult family.
Defining Your Desired Outcome
Defining Your Desired Outcome
Defining Your Professional Mandate
Defining Your Professional Mandate
Depression Beliefs Inventory
Depression Beliefs Inventory
Describing Behavior vs. Applying a Global Label (Labeling)
This task has a client replace a negative label (e.g.; "I'm a failure") with a specific behavioral.
Detached Self-Observation
Detached Self-Observation
Differentiating Grief from Depression Symptoms After a Loss
This questionnaire helps a client and practitioner distinguish between a normal grief process and.
Differentiating Intent vs. Impact in a Miscommunication
This grid helps a client or couple separate what was meant by a statement from how it was actually.
Differentiating Personal vs. Collective Grief After a Public Tragedy
Helps a client untangle their personal emotional response from the larger societal response to a.
Difficult Conversation Preparation Grid
A client needs to prepare for a specific conversation where they anticipate conflict or high emotion.
Digital Sunset Implementation Plan
Client scrolls or works on devices late into evening, disrupting sleep onset and leaving no buffer between stimulation and bed.
Direct Communication Phrasing
Direct Communication Phrasing
Directive Assignment Design Template
Design a between-session task before you assign it, not while you're assigning it.
Directive for Reducing Employee Stress
Directive for Reducing Employee Stress
Directive on Personal Burdens
Directive on Personal Burdens
Directive Redesign Worksheet
Rebuild a missed assignment from what the non-completion revealed — not a restatement, a redesign.
Directive: Action & Performance Inventory
Directive: Action & Performance Inventory
Directive: Altering the Impact of an Internal Voice
Directive: Altering the Impact of an Internal Voice
Directive: Analysis of a Positive Outcome
Directive: Analysis of a Positive Outcome
Directive: Anonymous Positive Actions
Directive: Anonymous Positive Actions
Directive: Assertive vs. Aggressive Communication
Directive: Assertive vs. Aggressive Communication
Directive: Deconstructing the Imposter Pattern
Directive: Deconstructing the Imposter Pattern
Directive: Evaluating Action Hesitation
Directive: Evaluating Action Hesitation
Directive: Evaluating Alternative Explanations
Directive: Evaluating Alternative Explanations
Directive: Managing Client Financial Accessibility
Directive: Managing Client Financial Accessibility
Directive: Operationalizing Admired Qualities
Directive: Operationalizing Admired Qualities
Directive: Passive, Assertive, and Aggressive Behavior
Directive: Passive, Assertive, and Aggressive Behavior
Directive: Reframing Problems as Questions
Directive: Reframing Problems as Questions
Dismantling an Outdated Persona
Dismantling an Outdated Persona
Distinguishing Facts from Interpretations
Distinguishing Facts from Interpretations
Distinguishing Observable Facts from Interpretations
Distinguishing Observable Facts from Interpretations
Documenting a Decision-Making Process to Counter Hindsight Bias
This directive has a client write down their rationale for a decision before the outcome is known;.
Early Morning Dream Record
Early Morning Dream Record
Effort vs. Value Assessment to Counter the IKEA Effect
Client overvalues projects, relationships, or endeavors simply because they have invested effort, and cannot assess whether continued investment is wise.
Email Template for Clarifying Vague Instructions from a Superior
This directive provides a professional script for an employee to seek clarity without appearing.
Emotional Granularity Log: Differentiating Shades of an Emotion
This log prompts a client to use more specific words for their feelings; for example sadness vs..
Emotional Intensity Log
Emotional Intensity Log
Emotional Pattern Tracker
Emotional Pattern Tracker
Emotional Reaction vs. Considered Response Log
Helps a client distinguish between their initial automatic emotional reaction and a more deliberate.
End-of-Service Client Feedback Questionnaire
A practitioner wants to gather structured.
Energy Accounting Questionnaire: Activities and People
The client consistently feels drained but doesn't know which specific interactions or tasks are the.
Environment Redesign Checklist for Habit Change
Provides a structured way to audit and alter a physical environment to support a new behavior.
Evaluating Your Decision-Making Style
Evaluating Your Decision-Making Style
Evidence Log for Contradicting a Core Belief (Confirmation Bias)
The client only notices information that supports a long-held negative belief about themselves or.
Examining the Negative Self-Talk Pattern
Examining the Negative Self-Talk Pattern
Existential Meaning Inventory: Aligning Daily Actions with Core Values
Client is busy and productive but feels empty, disconnected from their own values, and spending energy on things that do not matter to them.
Expanding Interpretations
Expanding Interpretations
Exposure Hierarchy for Fear of Flying
Structures a step-by-step plan for gradually confronting a fear of flying.
Externalizing the 'Anxious Voice' vs. 'Wise Mind' Dialogue
This writing task helps a client separate from their anxious thoughts and identify an alternative.
Fact vs. Inference Inventory
Fact vs. Inference Inventory
Fact vs. Story Analysis
Fact vs. Story Analysis
Fact-Based Communication Patterns
Fact-Based Communication Patterns
Factors Influencing Pain
Factors Influencing Pain
Family Role Mapping Questionnaire
A client feels stuck in a specific.
Family System Inventory
Family System Inventory
Fear Inventory
Fear Inventory
Fear of Success Deconstruction Questionnaire
Surfaces the underlying fears and negative beliefs associated with achieving a desired goal.
Finding Counter-Examples for the Availability Heuristic
This task prompts a client to research and list examples that run counter to a vivid; easily.
Finding the "Grey": A Spectrum Grid for All-or-Nothing Thinking
The client evaluates people.
First Disclosure Checklist
What to do — and what not to do — when a client begins to speak about trauma for the first time.
First Session Follow-Up
First Session Follow-Up
First-Session Dropout Risk Checklist
Assess the dropout risk indicators in a first session before the client decides not to return.
Five-Minute Action Plan for an Avoided Administrative Task
Breaks down an overwhelming and avoided task into a single manageable first step.
Five-Step Resolution Protocol
Five-Step Resolution Protocol
Focus of Control Inventory
Focus of Control Inventory
Formulating a Specific Request for Help
Client makes vague requests for help that are impossible to satisfy, then feels hurt or abandoned when others do not understand what they need.
Foundational Research on Automatic Behavior
Foundational Research on Automatic Behavior
Four Approaches to a Task
Four Approaches to a Task
Four Areas of Awareness
Four Areas of Awareness
Friendship Tier Assessment
This tool helps a client evaluate the intimacy reciprocity and energy exchange in their various.
From Blame to Action
From Blame to Action
Functional Assessment of Pain's Impact
Functional Assessment of Pain's Impact
Functional Outlook Analysis
Functional Outlook Analysis
Future Objectives Worksheet
Future Objectives Worksheet
Giving Shape to Free-Floating Anxiety
Externalizes and defines a non-specific anxiety by giving it concrete characteristics.
Goal Specification Directive
Goal Specification Directive
Graded Exposure Plan
Graded Exposure Plan
Grid for Assessing Risk When a Client Discloses Suicidal Ideation
This tool structures the risk assessment process by outlining key factors to consider like plan;.
Grid for Assessing the True vs. Perceived Risk of an Avoided Action
This tool guides a client to objectively evaluate the probability and severity of a feared outcome.
Grid for Balancing "We" Time vs. "Me" Time in a Partnership
This tool helps couples visually assess and negotiate their ideal balance of togetherness and.
Grid for Mapping Anxiety About Making a 'Wrong' Decision
This directive helps clients with decision paralysis externalize the feared outcomes and potential.
Grid for Mapping Hopes and Fears Related to Anticipatory Grief
This tool helps a client with a terminally ill loved one to externalize and process their complex.
Grid for Planning 'Tiny Experiments' for a New Behavior
This tool helps a client design low-risk mini-experiments to test out a new behavior without.
Grid for Plotting Anxiety Intensity Against Perceived Control
This tool helps clients see the relationship between their anxiety levels and how much control they.
Grid for Receiving and Processing Critical Feedback
This directive structures a non-defensive method for a client to listen to and evaluate negative.
Grid for Separating Effort from Outcome to Counter the Just-World Fallacy
This grid helps a client see that negative outcomes can happen despite best efforts; decoupling.
Grid for Tracking Secondary Losses Resulting from a Primary Loss
This grid helps a client identify and mourn the cascading losses (e.g.; friendships; identity) that.
Grief Log for a Relationship Breakup
Validates and tracks the grieving process following the end of a significant romantic relationship.
Grief Wave Log: Mapping Triggers and Intensity
Sudden episodes of intense grief feel random and destabilizing to the client.
Grievance to Vocation
Grievance to Vocation
Grieving the Future That Won't Be: A Writing Task for Infertility
Provides a structured space to mourn the specific hopes and plans lost due to infertility.
Health Anxiety Symptom Re-Appraisal Grid
This tool helps a client challenge catastrophic interpretations of benign physical sensations.
Hierarchy of Approach Goals for Social Re-engagement
This tool helps a client break down the overwhelming goal of "being more social" into small.
Homework Non-Completion Diagnostic
Identify which of seven non-completion patterns applies after a missed assignment — before redesigning the directive.
Hourly Distress & Context Log
Hourly Distress & Context Log
Hypnosis: Facts and Misconceptions
Hypnosis: Facts and Misconceptions
Hypothetical Action Planning
Hypothetical Action Planning
Hypothetical and Observational Question Bank
Prepare alternative question forms — hypothetical, observational, and presupposition-based — before sessions where direct questions consistently produce 'I don't know.'
Identifying "Secondary Gains" from an Avoided Situation
This questionnaire helps uncover hidden benefits or payoffs that reinforce a client's avoidance.
Identifying "Social Masks": Comparing Behavior Across Contexts
A client feels inauthentic or exhausted from social interaction without understanding how their.
Identifying Abstinence Violation Effect Triggers
This assessment helps a client identify the specific thoughts that lead from a single lapse to a.
Identifying and Rewriting Internalized Shame-Based Rules
Client unconsciously follows rigid rules learned from family or early experience, and these rules keep them restricted and disconnected from their own needs and values.
Identifying and Tracking Safety Behaviors
The client is unaware of subtle actions they take to feel "safe.
Identifying Hidden Patterns
Identifying Hidden Patterns
Identifying Patterns in Agoraphobia
Identifying Patterns in Agoraphobia
Identifying Physical Sensations Linked to Different Emotions
This structured body-scan helps a client build a personal map of how specific emotions manifest.
Identifying Signs of Desperation
Identifying Signs of Desperation
Identifying the Dual Realities of Ambiguous Loss
A client is struggling with a loss where a person is physically present but psychologically absent.
Identifying Your Default Outlook
Identifying Your Default Outlook
Identifying Your Primary Conflict Style
Identifying Your Primary Conflict Style
If-Then' Planning Template for High-Risk Situations
This directive helps a client create specific plans to handle triggers for an unwanted behavior.
Impact Inventory for Secondary Trauma
Person who has suffered trauma directly now shows symptoms of post-traumatic response without experiencing the original trauma, and this impact is unwitnessed.
Impact Statement for a Betrayed Partner After an Affair
Betrayed partner cannot articulate the scope of the hurt to the unfaithful partner, or alternates between minimizing and flooding.
Imposter Syndrome Evidence Log
Systematically collects objective evidence of competence to counter feelings of being a fraud.
Informed Consent Checklist for Minor Clients
A practitioner needs to ensure they have clearly communicated the limits of confidentiality to both.
Initial Goal-Setting and Expectation-Clarification Document
The practitioner needs a structured way to co-create measurable goals with a new client to prevent.
Inside View vs. Outside View
Inside View vs. Outside View
Interactional Style Assessment
Interactional Style Assessment
Internal Parts Inventory
Internal Parts Inventory
Internal State vs. External Behavior
Internal State vs. External Behavior
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Self-Assessment
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Self-Assessment
Interpersonal Obstacle Analysis
Interpersonal Obstacle Analysis
Intrusive Thought De-fusion Log
Provides a structured way to observe OCD-related intrusive thoughts without engaging with them or.
Inventory of 'Comparison Triggers' on Social Media
This task requires a client to log the specific accounts or content types that reliably trigger.
Inventory of Early Warning Signs for Relapse
This questionnaire helps a client identify subtle personal indicators that they are slipping toward.
Inventory of Losses from a Non-Marital Relationship Breakup
Client minimizes the grief of a non-marital relationship breakup, assuming the loss should be smaller than divorce, and the grief goes unexpressed.
Inventory of Negative Self-Descriptions
Inventory of Negative Self-Descriptions
Inventory of Personal Non-Negotiables
This directive helps a client define the core principles and conditions they are unwilling to.
Inventory of Personal Tolerations
The client experiences persistent.
Inventory of Reassurance-Seeking Behaviors
This assessment identifies the specific ways a client seeks reassurance which often perpetuates.
Inventory of Secondary Losses After a Relationship Failure
Client grieves the primary loss of the relationship but minimizes or does not recognize the secondary losses that come with it, leaving them partially grieved.
Inventory of Unspoken Expectations in a Relationship
This questionnaire surfaces the hidden rules and assumptions that each person holds for the other.
Key People Audit
Key People Audit
Legacy Inventory: Identifying Inherited Strengths and Values
The client's identity feels diminished by the loss.
Life Review
Life Review
Lightening the Load
Lightening the Load
Limiting Beliefs Inventory
Limiting Beliefs Inventory
List of Persistent Problems
List of Persistent Problems
Log for Contradictory Evidence Against an Overgeneralization
This log directs a client to actively collect and record specific experiences that disprove a.
Log for Tracking Moments of Spontaneous Curiosity
This interventional log directs attention toward and reinforces a client's natural inclinations and.
Log of "Numbing" or "Distracting" Behaviors
Increases awareness of how a client uses activities to avoid sitting with uncomfortable emotions.
Log of Avoided Tasks and the Immediate Feeling of Relief
The client needs to see the direct link between short-term relief from avoidance and the long-term.
Logging the "Inner Critic's" Most-Used Phrases
The client is affected by negative self-talk but isn't consciously aware of its specific content or.
Loss of Role Narrative: Who Am I Now?
Client's identity was organized around a role that has ended, and without that role they do not know who they are or what matters about them.
Mapping 'Stuck' Adult-Child and Parent Conversational Roles
Identifies repetitive and unhelpful communication roles that get activated in family conversations.
Mapping a Habit Loop (Cue-Routine-Reward)
The client wants to change a habit but doesn't understand the specific components that trigger and.
Mapping a Pursue-Withdraw Interaction Pattern
This task helps a couple identify the sequence of behaviors that define their demand-withdraw.
Mapping a Repetitive Conflict Cycle in a Couple
A couple has the same argument repeatedly without understanding the underlying pattern of moves and.
Mapping a Significant Period
Mapping a Significant Period
Mapping Disenfranchised Grief
This tool helps a client identify and validate significant losses that are not typically.
Mapping Family Alliances and Coalitions
This assessment helps a client or family visualize the unspoken teams and power dynamics within the.
Mapping Hopes and Fears for the Transition to College
Student faces the college transition with both excitement and dread, but the dread is not named, so it gets repressed or acts out as avoidance of applications or placement decisions.
Mapping Influential Events
Mapping Influential Events
Mapping Physical Safe Zones and Threat Zones
This grid externalizes a client's felt sense of safety and threat in various physical environments.
Mapping Reassurance-Seeking Loops in a Romantic Relationship
Identifies the cyclical pattern of reassurance-seeking in a relationship and its short-term effects.
Mapping the 'Reactance' Response to a Perceived Threat to Freedom
Helps a client identify the automatic opposition that arises when they feel controlled or told what.
Mapping the Anxiety-to-Anger Pipeline
Helps a client identify the triggers and internal process by which anxiety is expressed as anger.
Mapping the Chain of 'Productive Procrastination'
This directive helps a client see how they use smaller less important tasks to avoid a primary.
Mapping the Dynamics of Intimacy Avoidance in a Specific Relationship
One partner consistently avoids intimacy, the other partner feels rejected, and neither understands the structure of the avoidance or how to interrupt it.
Mapping the Full Cost of Avoidance Across Life Domains
This grid helps a client visualize the systemic impact of a specific avoidance pattern on their.
Mapping the moments before an anxiety spike to identify triggers
The client experiences anxiety as a sudden event and is unaware of its specific on-ramps.
Mapping the Pain Pattern
Mapping the Pain Pattern
Mapping the Reaction Pattern
Mapping the Reaction Pattern
Mapping Vulnerability Avoidance Behaviors in Relationships
Helps a client identify the specific actions they take to avoid emotional closeness.
Medical Appointment Anxiety Deconstruction and Approach Plan
Breaks down the specific fears associated with a medical visit and creates a step-by-step plan for.
Medical Avoidance Cost-Benefit Analysis
Client avoids medical appointments or disclosures that would give them information they need but fear, and the avoidance costs them more than the feared outcome would.
Medication Adherence Barrier and Support Planning Grid
Client skips doses or stops medication without medical direction, and the clinical benefit is lost while the client cannot distinguish whether it was ineffective or they did not take it as prescribed.
Minimal Directive Design Template
Reduce a proposed directive to its smallest effective form before offering it to a client with a history of refusals.
Motivation vs. Action Log
This log helps a client challenge the belief that they must feel motivated before they can take.
Obligation vs. Choice Inventory
Obligation vs. Choice Inventory
Observable Behaviors and Corrective Actions
Observable Behaviors and Corrective Actions
Observation Log for 'Emotional Evasions' in Conversation
This log helps a client notice when they subtly change the subject or intellectualize to avoid.
Observation Log for 'Positive Data Points' to Counter Negativity Bias
This log requires a client to actively search for and record small positive events each day to.
Observation Log for Conversational Turn-Taking
A client feels consistently unheard in a specific relationship and needs to gather data on the.
Observation Log for Non-Verbal Cues in a Specific Dyad
This log directs a client to track and record specific non-verbal signals (tone; posture) in a key.
Observation Task for "What Happens Next" After a Feared Outcome Doesn't Occur
This task directs a client's attention to the aftermath of an anxiety spike to gather evidence.
Observation Task for Automatic Emotional Responses to Media
This task instructs a client to notice and log their unprompted emotional reactions to specific.
Observation Task for Identifying 'Four Horsemen' Behaviors in an Argument
This task trains a client to spot criticism contempt defensiveness and stonewalling in their.
Observation Task for Triggers of Anticipatory Grief
This task helps a client identify the specific moments or thoughts that trigger feelings of grief.
Observation Task: Tracking 'Question-to-Statement' Ratio in Conversations
This task helps a client who deflects intimacy to notice how often they use questions to avoid.
Observational Checklist: Self-Confidence Indicators
Observational Checklist: Self-Confidence Indicators
Observational Self Protocol
Observational Self Protocol
Observing Others Successfully Navigating a Feared Situation
This structured observation task helps a client gather evidence of competence and safety by.
Observing Patterns: Confidence vs. Avoidance
Observing Patterns: Confidence vs. Avoidance
Operational Stance Assessment
Operational Stance Assessment
Paradoxical Directive Planner
Design a formal prescription for a client's refusal before you offer it in session — so the mechanism is sound and the delivery is clinical, not ironic.
Parent-Teacher Conference Agenda-Setting Template
Parent goes into teacher conference reactive and overwhelmed by bad news, unable to ask useful questions or partner with the teacher on next steps.
Parent-Teacher Conflict Preparation Template
Parent and teacher are in conflict about how to support the student, and the conflict is affecting the student and preventing collaboration.
Parental Impact Inventory
Parental Impact Inventory
Parental Response Mapping for Child Defiance
Parent has a go-to response to child defiance that escalates the behavior, and the cycle repeats without the parent recognizing their own role in the pattern.
Patterns of Negative Focus: A Self-Assessment
Patterns of Negative Focus: A Self-Assessment
Peer Conflict Resolution Preparation Worksheet
Student has a conflict with a peer that has become toxic and neither is able to resolve it without adult mediation, but student is unprepared for the conversation.
Peer Conflict Role and Contribution Analysis
Student is in a peer conflict and sees themselves as entirely blameless, which prevents them from understanding their own role or changing the dynamic.
Personal Attributes Inventory
Personal Attributes Inventory
Personal Decision-Making Matrix Based on Core Values
This tool allows a client to score potential life choices against their own stated core values.
Personal Needs Audit
Personal Needs Audit
Personal Qualities Inventory
Personal Qualities Inventory
Personal Qualities Inventory
Personal Qualities Inventory
Personal Strengths Inventory
Personal Strengths Inventory
Perspective Shift Worksheet
Perspective Shift Worksheet
Pet Loss Grief Validation Worksheet
This worksheet helps clients honor and validate their grief over the loss of a pet which is often.
Physical Sensation Checklist
Physical Sensation Checklist
Pinpointing the Felt Conflict
Pinpointing the Felt Conflict
Planning for a Grief Anniversary or Difficult Date
Proactively structures a plan for managing a day known to be emotionally difficult.
Plotting Personal Strengths Against Current Challenges
This grid helps a client strategically apply their existing strengths to their most pressing.
Post-Event Symptom Checklist
Post-Event Symptom Checklist
Post-Infidelity Disclosure Impact Statement Template
Provides a structure for the hurt partner to articulate the full impact of the infidelity without.
Post-Session Reconnection Script
Structure the brief personalized contact after a first session — specific enough to feel like you were listening, brief enough not to feel clinical.
Post-Success Analysis: Deconstructing What Worked
This task helps a client analyze a successful behavior change to reinforce the effective strategies.
Post-Trauma Identity Shift Questionnaire
Survivor struggles to articulate how trauma has changed their sense of self and their place in the world, leading to confusion and disconnection.
Practicing a New Habit in a Low-Stakes Environment
This directive structures a safe scenario for a client to rehearse a new behavior before deploying.
Practicing Active Listening Without Formulating a Response
This behavioral exercise trains a client to listen fully to another person without simultaneously.
Practitioner Burnout Warning Signs Self-Assessment
This self-assessment helps a professional identify their personal early indicators of burnout and.
Pre-Commitment Contract for a Specific Behavior Change Goal
This task creates a formal personal contract that increases accountability for a stated goal.
Pre-Exam Anxiety Deconstruction and Planning Grid
Systematically addresses specific academic performance fears and creates a tangible preparation plan.
Pre-Mortem for a Planned Approach Behavior
This writing task has the client anticipate potential obstacles in an exposure exercise and plan.
Pre-Session Update
Pre-Session Update
Priority Inventory
Priority Inventory
Problem Analysis & Action Plan
Problem Analysis & Action Plan
Problem Interaction Matrix
Problem Interaction Matrix
Problem Priority List
Problem Priority List
Problem Resolution Worksheet
Problem Resolution Worksheet
Problem-Solving Viewpoints
Problem-Solving Viewpoints
Procedure for Altering Self-Judgment
Procedure for Altering Self-Judgment
Procrastination Payoff Checklist
Procrastination Payoff Checklist
Procrastination vs. Fear of Humiliation: An Assessment
Procrastination vs. Fear of Humiliation: An Assessment
Productive vs. Corrosive Stress
Productive vs. Corrosive Stress
Professional Consultation Agreement
Professional Consultation Agreement
Questionnaire for Critically Evaluating an Expert's Advice
Counters the tendency to blindly accept expert opinion by prompting a critical and independent.
Questionnaire for Identifying Personal Communication Style Under Stress
This questionnaire reveals a client's default communication patterns (passive; aggressive;.
Questionnaire to Identify an Unmet Childhood Need Driving Adult Behavior
This tool helps a client connect current dysfunctional patterns to core needs that were unmet in.
Questionnaire to Map "Upper Limit Problems"
This questionnaire helps a client identify self-sabotaging behaviors that emerge when they approach.
Re-Appraising a Situation to Counter Fundamental Attribution Error
This grid prompts a client to list situational or external factors that could explain another.
Re-Evaluating Problem Statements
Re-Evaluating Problem Statements
Reciprocity Audit for a Specific Friendship
Helps a client evaluate the balance of give-and-take in a friendship.
Reframe Builder — Refusal as Strength
Construct a strategic reframe for a client's refusal pattern using their own language, before you offer it in session.
Reframe Builder — The Protective Silence
Build the reframe before you offer it. An improvised reframe lands as interpretation.
Reframing "Should Statements" into Preferences
This directive provides a structure for a client to rewrite rigid personal rules into more flexible.
Refusal Pattern Tracker
Log each client refusal across sessions until the pattern — not just the frustration — becomes readable.
Rejection Inventory
Rejection Inventory
Rejection Response Analysis
Rejection Response Analysis
Relapse Autopsy for a Lapsed Behavior Change
A client has slipped back into an old habit and needs to analyze the chain of events.
Replacement Behavior Brainstorming Grid
This grid helps a client generate and evaluate potential positive behaviors to use in place of a.
Resource and Competency Audit
Resource and Competency Audit
Resource Inventory
Resource Inventory
Responding to Self-Criticism
Responding to Self-Criticism
Response Patterns Under Pressure
Response Patterns Under Pressure
Response Prevention Plan for a Specific Checking Compulsion
Creates a concrete plan for resisting and delaying a specific compulsive checking behavior.
Responsibility Pattern Assessment
Responsibility Pattern Assessment
Responsibility Pie Chart for a Negative Event (Personalization)
This exercise requires a client to assign percentage responsibility for an outcome to all.
Review of Behavioral Options
Review of Behavioral Options
Reviewing Past Decisions to Counter Projection Bias
Client assumes they will feel, want, and need in the future what they feel, want, and need now, leading to choices that serve their present self and trap their future self.
Revising Automatic Thoughts
Revising Automatic Thoughts
Reward System Design Worksheet
This worksheet helps a client create a structured and effective reinforcement plan for a new.
Rewriting Self-Critical Talk into a Constructive Coaching Voice
Provides a structure for transforming harsh internal criticism into actionable and supportive.
Risk Factor Inventory
Risk Factor Inventory
Role Model Analysis
Role Model Analysis
Rule Assessment
Rule Assessment
SBI (Situation-Behavior-Impact) Feedback Construction Template
Structures feedback to be specific and non-accusatory by focusing on observable events.
Scheduled Information Review to Address the Ostrich Effect
Client avoids looking at finances, medical results, performance reviews, or other important information because the anxiety of not knowing is preferable to the anxiety of knowing.
Script and Preparation for Requesting a Raise
Structures the research and conversation needed to professionally ask for a salary increase.
Script for Addressing Chronic Client Lateness
Offers clear and professional language for addressing the impact of a client's lateness on the.
Script for Asking a Partner to Go to Couples Counseling
This script helps a client initiate a conversation about seeking professional help in a non-blaming.
Script for Delivering Unsolicited But Necessary Feedback
This template provides a structure for giving difficult feedback in a way that minimizes.
Script for Disclosing a Mental Health Condition to HR
Client needs to disclose mental health or a disability to access accommodations, but fears judgment, stigma, or retaliation from their employer.
Script for Disclosing Health Anxiety Concerns to a Doctor
Client avoids disclosing anxiety symptoms to their physician, fearing judgment or dismissal, and so medical assessment remains incomplete.
Script for Explaining Anxiety Symptoms to a Family Member
This script provides clear language for a client to explain their anxiety experience to loved ones.
Script for Interrupting a Chronic Interrupter
This script gives a client polite yet firm language to use to regain the floor in a conversation.
Script for Mediating a Conflict Between Two Co-Workers
This directive provides a structured opening statement and process for a manager or HR professional.
Script for Navigating a Client's Attraction to the Practitioner
This provides ethical and therapeutic language for a practitioner to address a client's romantic or.
Script for Re-engaging a 'Stonewalling' Partner in a Conversation
This script helps a client use a soft start-up to invite a withdrawn partner back into a difficult.
Script for Referring Out a Client Who is Not a Good Clinical Fit
Provides ethical and compassionate language for terminating with a client who requires a different.
Script for Requesting a Specific Accommodation for Social Anxiety
The client needs to ask for something specific at work or school but lacks the language to do so.
Script for Requesting Social Support for a Behavior Change
This script helps a client clearly and effectively ask friends or family for specific kinds of.
Script for Responding to a Client's Request for a Discount
This provides clear professional language for a practitioner to decline a request for a lower fee.
Script for Responding to a Passive-Aggressive Comment
Provides clear and non-reactive language to address indirect communication from others.
Script for Shifting from Advice-Giving to Socratic Questioning
Helps practitioners avoid the advice-giving trap by providing phrases that turn a client's question.
Script for Stating a Personal Limit with a Family Member
Provides language for clearly and kindly articulating a personal rule of engagement to a relative.
Script: De-escalating an Angry Client on the Phone or in Person
This provides structured language and steps for a practitioner to manage a client's anger safely.
Script: Responding to a Client's Out-of-Session Contact
A practitioner needs to redirect a client's attempts at contact through inappropriate channels (e.g.
Script: Responding to a Friend Request from a Current or Former Client
A practitioner requires professional.
Script: Responding to a Request for a Diagnosis for Non-Clinical Purposes
This script provides ethical and firm language for declining requests for diagnostic letters for.
Secondary Trauma Impact Inventory for Partners of Trauma Survivors
Partner of a trauma survivor absorbs the survivor's fear and hypervigilance without naming their own impact, and resentment builds underground.
Self-Compassion Script for a Behavioral Slip-Up
This script helps a client respond to a lapse with self-kindness instead of shame to prevent a full.
Self-Knowledge Expansion Plan
Build a gradual, indirect sequence for expanding what a client can access about themselves — starting from where they are, not where they should be.
Self-Regard: A Behavioral Analysis
Self-Regard: A Behavioral Analysis
Sensate Focus Log for Reintroducing Intimacy
Partners have lost physical connection and both feel goal-focused or anxious when they try to re-engage, turning it into another source of performance pressure.
Sensory Cueing Procedure
Sensory Cueing Procedure
Separating a Specific Trait from Overall Impression (Halo Effect)
Interrupts the halo effect by forcing a separate analysis of different qualities in a person or.
Separating Feelings from Facts Log (Emotional Reasoning)
The client uses their emotional state as the primary evidence for the reality of a situation.
Separating Observations from Interpretations of a Partner's Behavior
A client reacts to the story they tell themselves about their partner's actions rather than the.
Service Design & Implementation Plan
Service Design & Implementation Plan
Session Effectiveness Evaluation
Session Effectiveness Evaluation
Session Structuring Agenda for a Tangential Client
A practitioner needs a collaborative tool to help a client focus their time in session productively.
Session-to-Session Retention Tracker
Track dropout risk indicators and retention moves across the first four sessions — so the alliance arc is visible before a client disappears.
Setback Analysis
Setback Analysis
Setback Analysis
Setback Analysis
Sibling Conflict Deconstruction Grid
Siblings are in chronic conflict and the parent cannot understand what the baseline issue is or why every interaction escalates.
Silent Session Observation Log
Track what happens in silence — not to fill it, but to understand it.
Situational Stress Inventory
Situational Stress Inventory
Sleep Environment and Routine Audit
Client has poor sleep quality but attributes it to anxiety or medication, missing the actionable factors within their control.
Social Energy Patterns
Social Energy Patterns
Social Withdrawal Re-engagement Menu
Client has withdrawn from friends and social activities due to depression, anxiety, or shame, and isolation is deepening the withdrawal.
Somatic Grounding Technique Menu and Effectiveness Log
This tool helps a client systematically test and identify the most effective grounding techniques.
Somatic Inventory of a Single Emotion
Guides a client to map the specific physical sensations connected to a single emotional state.
Somatic Tracking Log for Panic Symptoms
A client experiences panic as a purely cognitive event and is disconnected from the physical.
State Transition Sequence
State Transition Sequence
Statement Construction for Personal Limit-Setting
This task guides a client in crafting clear; concise; and defensible statements about their.
Statement of Client Rights
Statement of Client Rights
Strategic Action Plan
Strategic Action Plan
Strategic Action Plan
Strategic Action Plan
Strategic Practice Review
Strategic Practice Review
Strengths and Challenges Inventory for Students with Learning Disabilities
Student with a learning disability sees themselves as entirely broken or deficient, and this identity collapse prevents them from using the strengths they actually have.
Strengths-Based Resume of Life Experiences
This directive helps a client reframe their personal history through the lens of resilience and.
Stressor Response Analysis
Stressor Response Analysis
Student Disclosure Immediate Safety Plan
A student has disclosed abuse or safety concerns to a school staff member, and immediate action is needed to ensure the student is safe and supported.
Student Safety Plan Following a Disclosure of Abuse
Student has disclosed abuse, and the child and supportive adults need a concrete plan to keep them safer while formal reporting and investigation proceed.
Suicide Risk Protocol
Suicide Risk Protocol
Sunk Cost Fallacy Decision-Making Worksheet
This tool forces a client to evaluate a decision based on future costs and benefits; ignoring past.
Support Network Assessment
Support Network Assessment
Support Network Assessment
Support Network Assessment
Symptom Scanning vs. Body Data Log for Health Anxiety
Client with health anxiety constantly monitors their body for signs of illness, and the monitoring itself creates physical sensations that confirm the fear.
Symptom-State Connection Map
Symptom-State Connection Map
Systematic Problem-Solving
Systematic Problem-Solving
Task Deconstruction Planner for Overwhelming Projects
This template helps a client break down a large avoided task into small non-threatening steps.
Task Sorting Questions
Task Sorting Questions
Template for a 'State of the Union' Relationship Meeting Agenda
This directive provides a structure for couples to have regular non-confrontational check-in.
Template for a Peer Consultation Case Presentation
This template structures how a practitioner presents a difficult case to a peer group to get.
Template for a Professional Will
This document provides a structure for a practitioner to outline instructions for their practice in.
Template for a Structured and Complete Apology
This directive provides a formula for an apology that acknowledges harm; takes responsibility; and.
Template for an Email to a Manager about Workload Concerns
An employee is overwhelmed but fears being seen as incompetent or difficult if they speak up.
Template for Co-Creating "Rules of Engagement" for Arguments
This directive helps a couple collaboratively establish a set of rules for managing conflict.
Template for Disclosing a Panic Disorder to a New Partner
This template provides a clear and structured way for a client to explain their panic symptoms to a.
Template for Documenting an Employee Performance Issue
This template provides a structured format for HR managers or supervisors to document performance.
Template for Requesting Help from a Manager on a Specific Task
Client struggles to ask for help at work, either waiting until they are overwhelmed or framing requests in a way that triggers defensiveness in their manager.
Template for Responding to a Witness or Records Request from an Attorney
This directive provides a standardized response to legal requests that protects client.
Template for Setting an Agenda for a Difficult Family Meeting
This tool provides a structure for a potentially volatile conversation to keep it focused and.
Template: Enforcing a Cancellation Fee with a Client
A practitioner needs a clear.
Template: Letter to a Client Who Has Discontinued Services Abruptly
This template offers a professional and ethical way to formally close a case when a client stops.
Testing a "Mind Reading" Assumption
The client acts on the conviction that they know others are thinking negatively about them.
Testing a Core Belief with a Behavioral Experiment
A core belief (e.g.
The 'Golden Thread' Case Conceptualization Worksheet
Ensures clinical notes are coherent by linking the diagnosis; treatment plan; and session.
The 'Shared Contribution' Pie Chart for a Relationship Problem
Moves a couple from blaming each other to identifying each person's contribution to a dynamic.
The Actor's Rehearsal
The Actor's Rehearsal
The Anonymous Action Protocol
The Anonymous Action Protocol
The Approval Trap Assessment
The Approval Trap Assessment
The Letter You Won't Send
Write everything. Hold nothing back.
The Magnified Trait Exercise
The Magnified Trait Exercise
The Observation Task
Notice the pattern without changing it.
The Opposite Response
Reverse the usual move when the moment arrives.
The Pretend Day
Act as if the problem is already solved.
The Problem Payoff Worksheet
The Problem Payoff Worksheet
The Problem's Hidden Payoffs
The Problem's Hidden Payoffs
The Scheduled Argument
Have the avoided argument on a timer.
The Worry Appointment
Confine worry to a scheduled window.
Thinking Traps Identification Sheet
Thinking Traps Identification Sheet
Thought Correction Record
Thought Correction Record
Thought Observation Log
Thought Observation Log
Three-Perspective Planning Form
Three-Perspective Planning Form
Timeline of Life Periods
Timeline of Life Periods
Tracing the Origin of an Internalized Shame Message
Client lives by a shame-based belief that governs their choices, and they cannot question it because they cannot remember where it came from.
Tracing the Source of a Problematic Assumption
Tracing the Source of a Problematic Assumption
Tracking Bids for Connection and Their Responses
One or both partners feel unseen or ignored but can't pinpoint the specific moments of disconnection.
Tracking Conversational Detours
Tracking Conversational Detours
Translating Goals into Actions
Translating Goals into Actions
Trauma Response Checklist
Trauma Response Checklist
Trigger and Response Pattern
Trigger and Response Pattern
Trust-Building Behavioral Task Log
This directive tracks small specific and consistent actions designed to rebuild trust in a.
Turning Criticisms Into Productive Questions
Turning Criticisms Into Productive Questions
Unilateral Action Log
Unilateral Action Log
Unsent Letter to the Person I Am Avoiding Due to Shame
Client is avoiding contact with someone specific, and the avoidance has become its own source of shame, keeping the client isolated and stuck.
Unwanted Patterns Inventory
Unwanted Patterns Inventory
Urge Surfing Log for Habit Interruption
The client acts on impulses or cravings immediately without observing their natural rise and fall.
Values and Actions Inventory
Values and Actions Inventory
Values and Priorities Inventory
Values and Priorities Inventory
Values Assessment
Values Assessment
Values vs. Goals
Values vs. Goals
Values vs. Time-Spent Personal Alignment Grid
The client feels a general sense of dissatisfaction or aimlessness but cannot pinpoint the source.
What You Won't Tolerate
What You Won't Tolerate
Workplace Operational Styles Assessment
Workplace Operational Styles Assessment
Worksheet: Investigating Chronic Dissatisfaction
Worksheet: Investigating Chronic Dissatisfaction
Worry vs. Action Plan
Worry vs. Action Plan
Writing a 'Permission Slip' for an Imperfect Action
This is a creative writing task for perfectionists to formally give themselves permission to do.
Writing a Goodbye Letter to an Old Habit
This writing task creates a ritual to help a client mentally and emotionally let go of a behavior.
Writing a Letter from a Future Self About Continued Avoidance
This task creates cognitive dissonance by having the client articulate the long-term consequences.
Writing a Narrative of the "Before" and "After" of a Loss
This writing task helps a client integrate a major loss into their life story by articulating the.
Writing a Relationship History from a Neutral Third-Party Perspective
This directive helps de-escalate blame by having clients narrate their relationship history as an.
Writing an "Anxiety Persona" Monologue
This directive externalizes anxiety by having the client write a monologue from the perspective of.
Writing an "Internal Board of Directors" Monologue
This task externalizes different parts of the self (e.g.; the critic; the visionary) by having them.
Writing an Unsent Letter of Amends for a Shame-Based Avoidance
Client has avoided contact with someone they harmed and the shame has calcified into a rigid internal story of themselves as a bad person.
Writing an Unsent Letter to a Deceased Loved One
The client has unresolved feelings or things they wish they had said to the person who died.
Writing an Unsent Letter to a Living Person from Whom One is Estranged
This directive addresses the ambiguous loss of estrangement by allowing the client to express.
Writing an Unsent Letter to a Situation Being Avoided
This task allows a client to externalize and process their fears and feelings about a situation.
Writing an Unsent Letter to the Source of Anger in Grief
Provides a safe container to express anger related to a loss without causing relational harm.
Writing Task: A Eulogy for a Lost Job or Role
This directive helps a client grieve a significant non-death loss by honoring the meaning and.
Writing Task: Describing a Partner's Positive Qualities for One Week
This task serves as a cognitive intervention to shift a client's focus from a partner's flaws to.
Writing Task: Rewriting 'You' Statements as 'I' Statements
This is a classic exercise for clients to practice taking ownership of their feelings in conflict.
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