CBT worksheet library
237 evidence-based worksheets and formulation tools. Preview any resource, then assign it to a client as an interactive digital worksheet they complete on any device.
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General CBT Skills
Longitudinal Formulation (Beckian)
Map the developmental pathway from early experiences through core beliefs and rules to the current maintenance cycle.
General CBT Skills
Cross-Sectional Formulation (5-Area Model)
Map how thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviour interact around a triggering situation using the CBT 5-area model.
General CBT Skills
Safety Plan
A structured 6-step safety plan for crisis intervention and suicide prevention.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD Formulation (Salkovskis)
A formulation based on Salkovskis' cognitive model of OCD — mapping intrusions, responsibility appraisals, distress, and neutralising behaviours.
Insomnia / Sleep
Insomnia Formulation (Spielman 3P Model)
A formulation based on Spielman's 3P model — mapping predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors that maintain insomnia.
Substance Misuse
Functional Analysis of Substance Use
Explore the triggers, thoughts, feelings, and consequences associated with substance use to understand its function in your life.
Health Anxiety
Health Anxiety Formulation (Salkovskis & Warwick)
A formulation based on the cognitive-behavioural model of health anxiety — mapping the vicious cycle of misinterpretation, anxiety, checking, and temporary reassurance.
PTSD / Trauma
Trauma Impact Statement
Explore how the traumatic event has affected your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world.
Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain Formulation
A biopsychosocial formulation for chronic pain — mapping biological, psychological, and social maintaining factors.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
ERP Hierarchy Builder
Build a graded exposure hierarchy for Exposure and Response Prevention therapy. List anxiety-provoking situations, rate them, and plan structured exposures.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
BDD Formulation (Veale)
A formulation based on the cognitive-behavioural model of BDD — mapping self-focused processing, distorted self-image, rumination, and safety behaviours.
Low Self-Esteem
Low Self-Esteem Formulation (Fennell)
A longitudinal formulation based on Fennell's cognitive model of low self-esteem — mapping how early experiences created a negative bottom line that is maintained by biased processing and unhelpful rules.
Supervision
Supervision Preparation Sheet
A structured preparation worksheet based on the Padesky supervision model. Helps supervisees organise their agenda, case discussions, and learning goals before each supervision session.
General CBT Skills
5-Column Thought Record
The classic cognitive restructuring tool. Identify automatic thoughts, evaluate the evidence, and develop more balanced alternatives.
Depression
Depression Formulation (Beck)
A longitudinal CBT formulation based on Beck's cognitive model of depression — mapping early experiences through core beliefs to current maintenance cycles.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Early Warning Signs & Action Plan
Identify personal early warning signs for both depression and mania/hypomania, and create a stepped action plan for each mood polarity.
Panic Disorder
Panic Formulation (Clark)
A formulation based on Clark's cognitive model of panic — mapping the vicious cycle of catastrophic misinterpretation of body sensations.
Psychosis (CBTp)
CBTp Formulation
A maintenance-focused formulation for psychosis — mapping triggers, experiences, appraisals, emotions, and coping responses.
Generalised Anxiety (GAD)
GAD Metacognitive Formulation (Wells)
A formulation based on Wells' metacognitive model of GAD — mapping the role of positive and negative beliefs about worry in maintaining the worry cycle.
Eating Disorders
Eating Disorder Formulation (CBT-E)
A formulation based on Fairburn's enhanced cognitive-behavioural model — mapping over-evaluation of eating, shape, and weight alongside maintaining mechanisms.
Personality & Schema Work
Schema Formulation
A longitudinal formulation mapping early experiences, core beliefs (schemas), coping strategies, and current patterns — the foundation for schema-focused work.
Social Anxiety
Social Situation Record
Record and reflect on social situations to identify the role of self-focused attention, safety behaviours, and predictions.
Social Anxiety
Social Anxiety Formulation (Clark & Wells)
A formulation based on Clark and Wells' cognitive model of social anxiety — mapping self-focused attention, the observer-perspective self-image, and safety behaviours.
PTSD / Trauma
PTSD Formulation (Ehlers & Clark)
A formulation based on Ehlers and Clark's cognitive model of PTSD — mapping the nature of the trauma memory, negative appraisals, sense of current threat, and the maintaining strategies.
Psychosis (CBTp)
Voice Power Differential Worksheet
Examine beliefs about the power of voices — challenging omniscience, omnipotence, and the need to comply.
Personality & Schema Work
Core Belief Continuum
Move from all-or-nothing core belief thinking to a continuum — placing yourself and evidence along a 0–100 scale.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD Monitoring Diary
Track OCD episodes — intrusions, appraisals, rituals, distress, and duration — to identify patterns and measure progress.
Panic Disorder
Panic Diary
Record panic episodes with triggers, sensations, catastrophic thoughts, safety behaviours, and actual outcomes to identify patterns and build evidence against catastrophic predictions.
Supervision
CTS-R Self-Assessment
Self-rate your CBT competencies using the Cognitive Therapy Scale — Revised (CTS-R) framework. Designed for supervisees to reflect on their own session performance before supervision.
Eating Disorders
Food, Mood & Context Diary
The core CBT-E self-monitoring tool — record what you eat, when, where, and how you felt, including any binge/purge episodes and triggers.
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- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)10 worksheets
- Depression10 worksheets
- Social Anxiety10 worksheets
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- Insomnia / Sleep8 worksheets
- Health Anxiety8 worksheets
- Low Self-Esteem8 worksheets
- Substance Misuse6 worksheets
- Bipolar Disorder6 worksheets
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)5 worksheets
- Supervision5 worksheets
- Panic Disorder5 worksheets
- Psychosis (CBTp)5 worksheets
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A plain-text list of every worksheet in the library, grouped by area, plus every model on the interactive tools hub. Useful if you would rather scan the whole catalogue than search it.
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General CBT Skills
- Longitudinal Formulation (Beckian)
- Cross-Sectional Formulation (5-Area Model)
- Safety Plan
- 5-Column Thought Record
- 7-Column Thought Record
- Cognitive Distortions Checklist
- Behavioural Experiment Worksheet
- Belief Survey Worksheet
- Values Assessment
- Relapse Prevention Plan
- Safety Behaviours Identification & Drop Plan
- Theory A vs Theory B
- Responsibility Pie Chart
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Exposure Practice Record
- Graded Exposure Hierarchy
- Problem-Solving Worksheet
- Positive Data Record
- Early Warning Signs & Action Plan
- Values & Activity Alignment
- Continuum Thinking Worksheet
- Activity Pacing Worksheet
- Imagery Rescripting Worksheet
- Vicious Flower Formulation
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Overcoming Perfectionism
- Assertiveness and Boundary-Setting
- Anger Trigger and Response Record
- Thought Sorting: Facts and Interpretations
- Emotion Regulation Skills
- Managing Overwhelm
- Willingness and Acceptance Practice
- Values, Pacing and Self-Regulation
- Setting a SMART Goal
- Spot Your Thinking Traps
- Anger: A Developmental Map
- Burnout Recovery and Boundaries Plan
- Assertive Body Language
- Assertive Listening
- Emotion Focused Formulation (Comprehend, Cope and Connect)
- What Keeps Anger Going?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Insomnia / Sleep
Substance Misuse
Health Anxiety
PTSD / Trauma
- Trauma Impact Statement
- PTSD Formulation (Ehlers & Clark)
- Trigger Discrimination Worksheet (Then vs Now)
- Grounding Techniques Practice
- Reliving Preparation & Processing Worksheet
- Hotspot Identification & Meaning Worksheet
- Trauma Appraisal Worksheet
- PTSD Symptom Diary
- Site Visit Planning & Reflection
- Reclaiming Life Activity Plan
- Trauma Impact Statement (CPT)
- Trauma and the Brain
- Coping with Flashbacks
Chronic Pain
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Low Self-Esteem
Supervision
Depression
Bipolar Disorder
Panic Disorder
Psychosis (CBTp)
Generalised Anxiety (GAD)
- GAD Metacognitive Formulation (Wells)
- Worry Decision Tree
- Worry Classification Worksheet
- Tolerating Uncertainty Practice
- Worry Diary with Postponement Record
- Positive Meta-Beliefs About Worry
- Negative Meta-Beliefs About Worry
- Intolerance of Uncertainty Formulation (Dugas)
- Attention Training Practice Record
- Detached Mindfulness Practice Record
- Uncertainty Exposure Hierarchy
- Applied Relaxation Practice Record
- Metacognitive Belief-Testing
- GAD Longitudinal Formulation
- Why Anxiety Keeps Going: The Vicious Cycle
Eating Disorders
- Eating Disorder Formulation (CBT-E)
- Food, Mood & Context Diary
- Regular Eating Schedule
- Self-Evaluation Pie Chart
- Body Checking & Avoidance Diary
- Dietary Rule Testing Worksheet
- Weekly Weight Monitoring
- Shape & Weight Belief Experiment
- Perfectionism Module Worksheet
- Mood Intolerance Module Worksheet
- Body Image Diary
Personality & Schema Work
- Social Situation Record
- Social Anxiety Formulation (Clark & Wells)
- Video Feedback Worksheet
- Self-Image Identification Worksheet
- Post-Event Processing Record
- Attention Refocusing Experiment Record
- Social Belief Updating Worksheet
- Session Belief Ratings Record
- Understanding Social Anxiety
- What Keeps Social Anxiety Going?
Psychoeducation
- Understanding the CBT Model
- The Stress Response: Fight, Flight or Freeze
- Understanding Core Beliefs
- The Window of Tolerance
- The Three Emotion Systems
- Naming Your Emotions
- Values Versus Goals
- The Anger Iceberg
- STOPP: making space to choose a response
- TIPP: responding to intense distress through the body
- ACCEPTS: choosing a temporary distraction
- Self-Soothe With Your Five Senses
- IMPROVE the moment
- Wise Mind
- Radical Acceptance
- Opposite Action
- DEAR MAN: planning a request or refusal
- The Circle of Control
- Self-Care Assessment
- Compassionate Imagery: Warming Up Your Soothing System
- Leaves on a Stream: Unhooking From Your Thoughts
- Unhelpful Thinking Styles
- How Breathing Affects How You Feel
- Facing Fears: The Anxiety Curve
- What Is Burnout?
- Pressure and Performance
- Am I Experiencing Burnout?
- Could I Have Adult ADHD?
- Understanding Adult ADHD
- Living with Adult ADHD: Practical Strategies
Interactive formulation models
- Cognitive Model of Panic
- Cognitive Model of Social Anxiety
- Cognitive-Behavioural Model of Intolerance of Uncertainty and GAD
- Metacognitive Model of GAD
- Cognitive-Behavioural Model of Health Anxiety
- Two-Factor Model of Specific Phobia
- Cognitive Model of OCD
- Cognitive-Behavioural Model of BDD
- Cognitive Model of PTSD
- Cognitive Model of Depression
- Behavioural Activation Model of Depression
- CBT-E Transdiagnostic Model of Eating Disorders
- Clinical Perfectionism Model
- Cognitive Model of Insomnia
- Fear-Avoidance Model of Chronic Pain
- Five Areas Model
- Cognitive Model of Low Self-Esteem
- Three Systems Model of Emotion Regulation (CFT)
- Cognitive Model of Anger
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