Free Therapy Resources

Evidence-based handouts and guides — free to download, share with clients, and use in session.

Grounding & Anxiety

Anxiety & Grounding

5 Grounding Techniques for Anxious Moments

A practical, beautifully designed guide to five evidence-based grounding exercises you can use anywhere, anytime.

  • 5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Method
  • Box Breathing (4-4-4-4)
  • Cold Water Reset
  • Feet on the Floor
  • Safe Place Visualization
1 page
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CBT • ACT • DBT

Cognitive & Grounding Strategies: A Complete Toolkit

A comprehensive multi-page clinical reference covering cognitive restructuring, somatic grounding, and DBT distress tolerance — evidence-based tools drawn from CBT, ACT, DBT, and mindfulness.

  • Part 1: Cognitive strategies (CBT, ACT, MI, Psychoeducation)
  • Part 2: Grounding techniques (somatic, sensory, mindfulness)
  • Part 3: DBT distress tolerance & emotion regulation
  • Quick reference: When to use which strategy
6 pages
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Cognitive & Thought Work

CBT & ACT

Breaking the Thought Loop

A clinical intervention guide for interrupting rumination and anxious cycling — drawing on CBT, ACT, mindfulness, and behavioral activation techniques.

  • 7 evidence-based intervention steps
  • Defusion & pattern-break techniques
  • Grounding & behavioral activation prompts
  • How to use in session (3-step framework)
1 page
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Couples & Relationships

Communication

Reflective Listening: A Skill Guide for Couples

A practical one-page guide to one of the most powerful communication skills in couples therapy — with step-by-step instructions and real phrase examples.

  • The 5 steps of reflective listening
  • What reflective listening is & is not
  • Phrase swap practice grid
  • Common barriers and how to overcome them
1 page
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Couples & Research

Gottman Method: Key Concepts for Couples

An evidence-based overview of the Gottman Method — covering the Four Horsemen, the Sound Relationship House, bids for connection, and the 5:1 ratio.

  • The Four Horsemen & their antidotes
  • The 7 levels of the Sound Relationship House
  • Bids for connection & how to respond
  • Repair attempts & the 5:1 positivity ratio
1 page
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Couples & Marriage

Strengthening Your Marriage: A Couples Support Guide

A comprehensive, evidence-based guide covering communication, conflict resolution, emotional intimacy, infidelity healing, pornography addiction, and rebuilding trust.

  • Gottman Method tools & the Four Horsemen
  • Infidelity & betrayal trauma recovery
  • Pornography addiction & rebuilding trust
  • Holding space & emotional intimacy practices
10 pages
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Self-Reflection & Recovery

Self-Reflection

Is Therapy Right for Me? A Gentle Checklist

A thoughtful, private self-reflection checklist to help you explore whether therapy might be a meaningful next step in your journey.

  • Emotional & mental well-being
  • Relationships & connection
  • Daily life & functioning
  • Personal growth & self-discovery
1 page
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Eating & Recovery

Finding Your Way Back to Yourself

A compassionate, evidence-based guide for clients navigating anorexia nervosa — covering food restriction, compulsive exercise, and gentle tools for recovery.

  • Understanding food restriction & the restriction cycle
  • Gentle nutrition tools & the fear food ladder
  • Joyful movement vs. compulsive exercise
  • Self-compassion practices & coping statements
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Trauma & Brainspotting

Brainspotting: Healing Trauma Through the Brain–Body Connection

An evidence-based overview of Brainspotting — covering what it is, how it works, 6 key benefits for trauma processing, who can benefit, and how it compares to EMDR.

  • What Brainspotting is & how it accesses subcortical trauma
  • The 5-step process: attunement through integration
  • 6 benefits for trauma processing (including complex PTSD)
  • Brainspotting vs. EMDR — side-by-side comparison
2 pages
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Intimacy & Sex Therapy

Intimacy & Connection — Client Worksheets

Six private worksheets to explore, reflect on, and share with your partner — at your own pace, in your own words. Designed for couples navigating intimacy differences.

  • Intimacy Menu — map what feels good, open, or off-limits
  • Pursuer–Withdrawer Cycle Map — externalize the pattern
  • Green / Yellow / Red Touch Exercise — build shared language
  • Sensate Focus guide, Define “Enough” reflection & Reassurance Language Practice
6 pages
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Daily Connection

Positive Daily Check-In Starters

24 warm conversation prompts organized by theme — from gratitude and wins to playful and relational questions — to help couples and individuals shift the tone of their daily check-ins and build emotional connection.

2 pages
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ADHD & Neurodiversity

ADHD Support Guide

A strengths-based, social work lens on ADHD — covering executive function, emotional regulation, RSD, practical strategies, relationships, self-advocacy, and what ADHD truly brings to the table.

6 pages
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Relationships

When Self-Doubt Meets Love

A compassionate guide for navigating jealousy and insecurity rooted in your own story — not your partner's actions. Covers attachment wounds, comparison thinking, communication tools, and building inner security.

6 pages
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Couples

Deeper Together: 60+ Conversation Prompts for Couples

A guided collection of prompts across five themes — Who We Are, Love & Being Loved, Dreams & the Future, Hard Conversations, and Gratitude & Appreciation — to help couples build emotional intimacy through honest, meaningful conversation.

6 pages
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Relationships

Releasing Resentment: A Guide to Healing What Lingers

A comprehensive guide to understanding where resentment comes from, what it costs you, and how to begin letting it go — without pretending the hurt didn't happen. Includes sections on forgiveness, couples patterns, and steps toward healing.

6 pages
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Relationships

When Trust Is Broken and Accountability Is Missing

A guide for navigating trust, self-protection, and difficult decisions when your partner has hurt you — and hasn't taken responsibility for it. Covers what genuine accountability looks like, why you can't force yourself to trust, and how to protect yourself while you decide.

7 pages
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For Clinicians

Roots & Lenses: A Therapist's Self-Reflection on Bias

A structured self-reflection tool for clinicians to examine unconscious biases in diagnosis, therapeutic alliance, treatment planning, and systemic awareness. Includes identity positionality inventory, 5 bias checklists, and reflection prompts for use in supervision or independent practice.

7 pages
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Couples & Self-Reflection

Love Is More Than One Thing

A thoughtful guide for separating love, commitment, romantic attraction, sexual desire, physical attraction, and the choice to build a life together. Includes reflection prompts and conversation starters for partners.

6 pages
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Couples & Attachment

When the Spiral Takes Over

A relationship repair guide for couples navigating anxious attachment patterns and recurring conflict loops. Includes a 10-minute de-escalation sequence, repair conversation script, and a concrete plan for moving forward together.

7 pages
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Couples & Communication

When We Come to Each Other

A practical guide for speaking, receiving, and responding to frustration with more care. Includes preparation steps, sentence frames, phrase swaps, repair tools, and exercises to practice together when you are calm.

7 pages
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Couples Homework

Between Sessions: Couples Communication Homework

An eight-page practice pack with six focused exercises for reducing miscommunication, strengthening listening, practicing repair, and building reliable connection between therapy sessions. Includes a weekly “State of Us” meeting and tracker.

8 pages
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Couples & Connection

The WHY Mind

An eight-page guide to emotional mind, logical mind, and the bridge between them. Learn how to recognize feelings, access emotion when you are only analyzing, find clarity when you are overwhelmed, and get curious about your partner without arguing.

8 pages
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Couples & Communication

Caught Off Guard

A ten-page guide for handling surprise conversations and responses that do not feel validating. Includes a 90-second reset, in-the-moment scripts, self-validation tools, partner validation skills, a pause-and-return worksheet, and two couples practice labs for rehearsal and repair.

10 pages
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Couples & Communication

When Emotions Are High

An eight-page fast-resolution guide for couples who do not want to wait through conflict. Includes a 10-minute resolution plan, language for urgency and brief resets, one-action repair tools, and a printable Fast-Resolution Agreement.

8 pages
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Anxiety & Grounding

When Anxiety Feels Like Evidence

An eight-page guide to stepping back from feared scenarios, separating present facts from anxious predictions, working with avoidance safely, and choosing a grounded next step. Includes a Scenario-to-Next-Step worksheet.

8 pages
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Workplace Wellness

Staying Grounded at Work

A comprehensive ten-page guide to validating activated coworkers with boundaries, working with defensiveness, navigating leadership growth gaps, and building personal psychological safety in a difficult workplace.

10 pages
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Coping & Self-Reflection

When Feelings Need to Wait

A compassionate guide to setting feelings aside when life requires you to keep moving, then returning to yourself with care. Includes a practical containment plan, a 10-minute return practice, and a personal check-in worksheet.

6 pages
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Self-Reflection

Still Me: How to Stay Yourself in a New Relationship

A guide for anyone who tends to lose themselves in relationships — shrinking, over-accommodating, or seeking constant validation. Covers the roots of validation-seeking, how to recognize when you're disappearing, and practical steps to stay grounded in your identity while building something new.

7 pages
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Couples & ADHD

ADHD in the Family

A nine-page marriage and parenting workbook with separate tools for the partner with ADHD and their partner. Includes repair scripts, support and boundary exercises, parenting-routine planning, a weekly family operating system, and a two-week experiment.

9 pages
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Self-Love & Healing

Coming Home to Yourself

An eight-page, trauma-informed self-love guide for rebuilding emotional safety, self-trust, self-compassion, and boundaries. Includes a return-to-now plan, inner-critic reset, care-and-joy menu, and seven-day coming-home plan.

8 pages
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Intimacy & Consent

Understanding the Erotic Blueprints®

A thorough nine-page, consent-centered companion to the Erotic Blueprints® framework. Explore the five types, emotional safety, boundaries, communication, solo reflection, and couples exercises without pressure or performance expectations.

9 pages
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Self-Compassion & Growth

When Kind Words Feel Hard to Trust

An eight-page guide for anyone who brushes off compliments, expects a hidden negative, or feels unsafe being seen positively. Includes self-sabotage pattern mapping, discernment tools, boundary-friendly responses, bridge phrases, and a seven-day kind-word practice.

8 pages
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Self-Love & Care

The Self-Love Practice Workbook

A fourteen-page guided workbook for building self-compassion, self-trust, boundaries, daily care, and supportive connection. Includes writable exercises for self-compassion, self-work, love, respect, and gratitude, plus a small-promise plan, care menu, and 14-day self-love practice.

14 pages
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Couples & Communication

Curious Together

A ten-page couples guide to intellectually stimulating conversations and deeper connection. Includes deep-listening tools, respectful-disagreement language, thinking-together activities, conversation prompts, and a weekly curious-date ritual.

10 pages
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Crisis & Emergency Resources

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