Free CBT Worksheets

The forms below are related to the book Emotion Regulation in Psychotherapy, A Practitioner’s Guide, by Robert L. Leahy, Dennis Tirch, and Lisa A. Napolitano. Purchase a copy of the book here.

2.1 – Leahy Emotional Schemas Scale
2.2 – Fourteen Dimensions of the Leahy Emotional Schemas Scale
2.3 – Emotion Log
2.4 – Possible Emotions Someone Could Have in this Situation
2.5 – Costs and Benefits of Thinking My Emotions are Abnormal
2.6 – Survey of Other People Who Have these Emotions
2.7 – Activity Schedule, Emotions, and Thoughts
2.8 – Costs and Benefits of Believing That Emotions are Temporary
2.9 – How to Accept Difficult Feelings
2.10 – Examples of Mixed Feelings
2.11 – Advantages and Disadvantages of Accepting Mixed Feelings
2.12 – Looking for Positive Emotions
2.13 – Emotional Goal Inventory
2.14 – Additional Meanings in Life
2.15 – Possible Emotions that I Can Also Have
2.16 – Relationship to Higher Values
2.17 – VIA Survey of Character Strengths
3.1 – Examples of When I Feel or Don’t Feel Validated
3.2 – Problematic Ways of Getting People to Respond to Me
3.3 – My Beliefs about Validation
3.4 – Vertical Descent for When I Do Not Feel Validated
3.5 – What I Can Do When I Am Not Validated
3.6 – Adaptive Things to Say or Do When I Feel Invalidated
3.7 – Examples of Minimizing My Needs
3.8 – Compassionate Self-Validation
3.9 – How to Be More Rewarding and Get Support from Your Friends
4.1 – Emotion Myths
4.2 – Basic Facts about Emotions
4.3 – Model for Describing Emotions
4.4 – What Is the Function of Emotion
4.5 – Observing and Describing Emotions
4.6 – Practicing a Nonjudgmental Stance toward Emotions
4.7 – Experiencing Your Emotion as a Wave
4.8 – Emotion Induction Record
4.9 – Experiment Record
4.10 – Opposite Action
5.1 – Daily Mindfulness Practice Record
6.1 – Willingness Journal
6.2 – Defusion Practices for Everyday Living
6.3 – The Monsters on the Bus
6.4 – Stopping the War Record
7.1 – Questions to Ask Yourself After Completing Your First Week of Engaging in the Lovingkindness Exercise
7.2 – Questions to Ask Yourself After Completing Your First Week of Imagining the Compassionate Self
7.3 – Self-Compassionate Letter Writing
8.1 – Questions to Ask Yourself to Enhance Your Emotional Awareness
8.2 – Emotionally Intelligent Thought Record
8.3 – Emotionally Intelligent Thought Record (Short Form)
9.1 – Distinguishing Thoughts from Feelings
9.2 – Categories of Automatic Thoughts
9.3 – Four-Column Thought Form
9.4 – Examining the Advantages and Disadvantages of Thoughts
9.5 – Examining the Evidence for a Thought
9.6 – Defense Attorney Form
9.7 – What Would the Jury Think
9.8 – Advice I Would Give My Best Friend
9.9 – Why It’s Hard for Me to Take Good Advice
9.10 – Place Events on a Continuum
9.11 – Placing Events in Perspective: What I Can Still Do
9.12 – Overcoming Time Urgency
10.1 – Instructions for Progressive Muscle Relaxation
10.2 – Instructions for Diaphragmatic Breathing
10.3 – Self-Soothing
10.4 – Weekly Activity Scheduling: Pleasure Predicting and Actual Outcome
10.5 – List of Priorities
10.6 – Self-Monitoring Off-Task Behaviors
10.7 – Planning Ahead
10.8 – Anti-Procrastination
10.9 – Instructions for Using Positive Imagery
10.10 – Instructions for the Alexander Lie-Down Technique

Decision Style Questionnaire
How I Explain Outcomes
Maximizing Questionnaire
Regret Questionnaire
Your Biases in Overestimating Risk
Your Biases in Underestimating Risk

2.1 – Distinguishing Events Thoughts and Feelings
2.2 – How Thoughts Create Feelings
2.3 – The A-B-C Technique
2.4 – Other Possible Facts
2.5 – Rating Emotions and Beliefs
2.6 – Tracking Degree of Belief in a Thought
2.7 – Checklist of Cognitive Distortions
2.8 – Categorizing Your Thought Distortions
2.9 – Using the Vertical Descent
2.10 – Looking at Probabilities in a Sequence
2.11 – Guessing at the Negative Thought
3.1 – Defining the Terms
3.2 – Making Definitions Clear
3.3 – Cost Benefit Analysis of a Thought
3.4 – Examining the Validity of Costs and Benefits
3.5 – Examining the Evidence
3.6 – Examining the Quality of the Evidence
3.7 – Playing the Role of Your Own Defense Attorney
3.8 – Are My Challenges Relevant to My Negative Thoughts
3.9 – Role Playing Both Sides of the Thought
3.10 – Evaluating Negative Labels
3.11 – Looking for Variations
3.12 – Changing Negative Thoughts by Changing Behavior
4.1 – Monitoring Your Assumptions Rules and Standards
4.2 – Examining and Challenging Should Statements
4.3 – Identifying Conditional Beliefs
4.4 – Evaluating Second-Level Assumptions
4.5 – Values Clarification
4.6 – Perfectionism Inventory
4.7A – Costs and Benefits of Progress and Perfection
4.7B – Making Progress Rather than Trying for Perfection
4.8 – Learning from Lapses
4.9 – Case Conceptualization Diagram
4.10 – Examining the Implications of Perfectionism
4.11 – Turning Work into Play – Changing Criticism and Disappointment into Curiosity
4.12 – Changing Old Rules Assumptions into New Rules Assumptions
4.13 – My New Bill of Rights
5.1 – Examining Confirmation Bias
5.2 – Using All the Information
5.3 – Estimates of the Likelihood of Events
5.4 – Examining Logical Errors
5.5 – Seeing Patterns that May Not Be There
5.6 – Challenging False Dichotomies
5.7 – Reducing Thoughts to Absurdity
5.8 – Mood Induction and Alternative Thoughts
5.9 – Examining the Recency Effect
5.10 – Fallacies in Arguments
6.1 – Focusing on Short Term Goals
6.2 – Focusing on Longer Term goals
6.3 – Committing to the Future by Deciding Now
6.4 – Examining Sunk Costs
6.5 – Mood and Decision Making
6.6 – Viewing Losses and Gains as a Focus in Making Decisions
6.7 – Regret Avoidance
6.8 – Decisions by Current and Future Selves
6.9 – Past Current and Future Rewarding Activities
6.10 – Risk versus Risk Choices
7.1 – Detached Mindfulness
7.2 – Imagining the Thought as Something Else
7.3 – Thought Balloon
7.4 – Thoughts versus Reality
7.5 – Are These Thoughts Really Relevant
7.6 – The Thought Visitor
7.7 – The Thought Clown
7.8 – Problematic Responses to an Unwanted Thought
7.9 – The Boredom Technique
8.1 – Self-Monitoring of Worries
8.2 – Costs-Benefits of Worry
8.3 – Turning Worries into Predictions
8.4 – Making Thoughts and Predictions Testable
8.5 – Testing Negative Predictions
8.6 – Examining Past Negative Predictions
8.7 – Possible Outcomes
8.8 – Stories about Outcomes
8.9 – Examples of Imperfect Solutions
8.10 – Reviewing How I Handled Past Negative Events
8.11 – Why I Don’t Learn from Past Predictions
8.12 – Point-Counterpoint
8.13 – Productive and Unproductive Worries
8.14 – Keeping Track of Worries for Worry Time
8.15 – Making Negative Predictions Come True
8.16 – Flooding Yourself with Uncertainty
8.17 – Take Yourself Out of It
8.18 – Grain of Sand
8.19 – Seeing It from the Balcony
8.20 – Time Machine
8.21 – Why Others Wont Care Later about My Negative Behavior
8.22 – Negation of Problems
8.23 – Feared Fantasy Worry
8.24 – Practicing Acceptance
9.1 – Pie Chart Exercise
9.2 – The Continuum Exercise
9.3 – What I Can Still Do
9.4 – Considering Alternatives
9.5 – Zero Point Comparisons
9.6 – Depolarizing Comparisons
9.7 – How Have Others Coped
9.8 – How I Could Cope If this Were True of Me
9.9 – Developing New Ways to Evaluate a Quality
9.10 – Asking for Things that are Important to Me
9.11 – Examining Opportunities and New Meanings
9.12 – Traveling to the Future
10.1 – Reviewing Problematic Patterns
10.3 – What Are Schemas
10.4 – Avoiding and Compensating for My Schema
10.5 – Developing Motivation to Change My Schemas
10.6 – Early Memories of Schemas
10.7 – Writing a Letter to the Source of Your Schemas
10.8 – Challenging Personal Schemas
10.9 – Life Through the Lens of a Different Schema
10.10 – Effects of My Positive Schema
10.11 – Transcending My Schema
11.1 – Daily Emotion Log
11.2 – Emotions Avoid
11.3 – Keeping a Journal
11.4 – Writing a Story
11.5 – Identifying Hot Spots
11.6 – Leahy Emotional Schema Scale II
11.7 – Scoring Guide for the 14 Dimensions
11.8 – Emotional Schemas
11.9 – Accepting Emotion
11.10 – Rescripting the Story
11.11 – Doing What I Don’t Want to Do