Toolbox
Myers Counseling Group offers therapeutic tools that may assist clients. We suggest that you use these tools with your therapist. They are designed to aid in the therapeutic process, not replace it.
Anger
A visual representation of your anger, along with examples of what might cause it.
This personal survey will help you to gauge your feelings throughout the week on a scale of 1-10.
This worksheet shows examples of how adapting to a different mindset can help you get through your frustrations.
A visual aid in explaining the way anger builds itself into a toxic feedback-loop.
Anger (Child)
Writing prompts to help gain clarity and explore your anger.
A worksheet that can help children address what makes them feel angry, as well as what can help calm them.
A guide that helps direct a child on what to do when they experience anger.
A descriptive visual aid giving examples on how anger can hide other emotions.
Ref: Drew, Jessie. Umbrella Emotion 2019
A worksheet to help kids match facial expressions with different emotions, along with
writing prompts to help them explore their own feelings
A therapeutic worksheet to help children visualize their anger
Ref: kidsolutions.com\What can I do Anger Child
A radial visual aid showcasing actions to take when angry.
A worry temperature gauge to monitor children’ns level of anger
Anxiety
Weekly log that helps gauge how you felt doing different activities.
Anxiety Feedback Loop Worksheet
Worksheet that creates a better understanding of how our anxiety presentes itself.
Cognitive Behavioral Self Treatment for OCD
Methods for coping with thoughts and feelings brought on by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Ref: Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D.A detailed worksheet on techniques to calm your body down when experiencing anxiety.
Ref: Therapist Aid LLCA worksheet that explains stressors, symptoms of stress, as well as methods to help manage stress.
Ref: Centre for Clinical Interventions
6 page exercise to handle and embrace uncertainty and lessen the stress that comes with it.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources, 2022Daily activities that promote panic
A list of experiences that can cause feelings of anxiety and panic.
A detailed description on how to reduce anxiety through confronting one’s fears, along with examples on Exposure Therapy methods.
Ref: Therapist Aid LLC, 2022
This worksheet explains what happens in our brain and bodies when we experience anger, or fear
A detailed explanation of what the brain and body experience when going through physically.
A log for when Anxiety is experienced includes writing prompts
Ref: Psychology Tools
A detailed explanation of what happens to our minds and bodies when we experience worry, as well as some tips on worry management
A writing exercise for managing obsessive thoughts.
This page explores what happens when we entertain intrusive or anger inducing thought patterns.
Pausing During a Distressing Situation
Five useful worksheets to help you get through challenging scenarios.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources, 2019
A worksheet for analyzing anxious thoughts.
Ref: Creative Commons psychology toolsPreparing for Difficult Conversations
5 Helpful worksheets assist you in navigating challenging dialogue with others.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources, 2021
A detailed description on how to avoid feeling anxiety when met with triggers.
Ref: Centre Clinical Interventions
A reference page detailing the problems we face when dwelling on negative situations.
Ref: Creative Commons Psychology Tool
Breathing/Calm
4-7-8 Calm Breathing Exercises
This video helps destress all age groups by exploring breathing exercises for those experiencing anxiety.
Ref: Gozen, 20125 Minute Relaxation Meditation
A video featuring a relaxing exercise to help calm the mind. Fit for all age groups.
Ref: Jess Fleming, 2018
Follow Shawn Achor as he goes in depth on 6 easy methods that can help boost happiness within 30 days.
Ref: Shawn Achor, CBC News 2015
In this video, Rudolph Matheny guides us through what he calls “a metaphor for emotional awareness and emotional management.”
Ref: Rudolph Matheny, 2018Patrick Dexter plays soothing music in Ireland at sunset.
Ref: Patrick Dexter Cello, 2020Choosing A Breathing Technique
A variety of methods for breathing to help calm an anxious body. Includes writing prompts to further help work through the situation.
A comprehensive list on what positive effects vitamins, minerals, and certain healthy foods have on the body.
Steph Janzen hosts this calming video aimed at younger audiences. It features soothing vocals, and pleasant visuals to help reduce stress.
Ref: Steph Janzen, 2014This meditation app has features that can help improve sleep quality, reduce stress, improve focus, and more!
These four breathing exercises can help to manage and relieve stress and anxiety.
How Breathing Affects Feelings
This Page goes into descriptive detail on the positive effect breathing has on our feelings.
Ref: Creative Commons Psychology Tools
How To Create The Relaxation Response
This page helps guide you through a small meditation and breathing exercise for relaxation and stress relief.
A small guide on the power the mind has when trying to relax.
This page helps guide your child through meditation.
Soothing visuals and tranquil sounds are featured in this video meant for relaxation, studying, meditating, or sleeping.
Ref: Nature ASMR, RedinNP 2017
These 5 pages help teach you how to practice progressive muscle relaxation techniques.
A series of guided relaxing videos that help you control your breathing through yoga.
Ref: Teens Health, Nemours Children’s HealthThis worksheet guides you through using cue words and a calming technique for breathing, with an explanation of the benefits.
Ref: Ravenswood Community Mental Health Center Consultation & Education Department
A guided exercise that focuses on calming each muscle.
Adriene hosts a short 6 minute yoga sequence to help get some relaxing stretches in with the support of a chair.
Ref: Yoga With Adriene, 2014
Child
A simple worksheet designed to help children identify instances in which they had automatic negative thoughts
A worksheet that helps aid mindfulness in response to certain events and the feelings they created.
A short write-up on family dynamics, specifically children and adolescents with depression.
A thoughtful roadmap about communication skills and how to use them.
A worksheet that aids with self-talk and the negativity that could come with that.
Ref: Jessie Drew, LLC.
A worksheet that assists task management with a very conscientious breakdown of what to do.
Ref: Jessie Drew, LLC.
A diagram used to assist with people skills, comfort levels, and understanding.
Ref: SchoolCounselingFiles
What Can I do? (decision making)
A diagram that can be used to define options in regards to problem solving.
When I Feel I have These thoughts
A helpful worksheet that can help discern between positive and negative thoughts/feelings.
Ref: Jessie Drew, LLC.
Child (Anxiety)
A worksheet that walks through anxiety and it’s affects in a very digestable way.
Ref: FreePrintableBehaviorCharts
Codependency
A poem addressing the idea of codependency and some things that letting go can lead to?
A comprehensive write-up about the signs of codependency and what to look for.
A diagram that breaks down emotional disturbance and the steps one should take to manage it.
A worksheet used to develop a positive change and build motivation.
Ref: Dr. Henry Steinberger
A worksheet used to develop a positive change and build motivation.
Ref: Dr. Henry Steinberger
A description of relapse and the dangerous cycle that requires learning and thoughtfulness.
Ref: Social Work Change! (Adapted from text by Prochaska and Diclemente)
A worksheet that helps aid mindfulness in response to certain events and the feelings they created.
A flowchart personifying negative self-talk and the downward spiral it could lead to.
A worksheet designed to promote the importance of self-compassion
Developing Your Arsenal Against Negative Thoughts
A strengthening worksheet in managing negative thoughts and steps that could be taken to do so.
A write-up on self-defeatism and examples of negative self-talk that could come from it.
A small guide about the positive impacts that could come from pushing past against negative feelings.
A helpful journal that could assist with social skills and showing appreciation.
Grounding Techniques (Mindfulness)
A helpful journal that could assist with social skills and showing appreciation.
A write-up explaining not only how to journal, but the positive affects it could have.
Principles Underlying Functional Thinking
This page is a six-point description of personal strength and what it takes to create a functional mindset.
A list of questions that help discern between positive and negative self-talk.
More examples of negative self-talk and some examples of great alternatives that could replace negativity.
A flowchart demonstrating the steps of change and the necessity of learning from relapse.
A guide to some thoughts that could be negative and what to do to spin it in a more positive direction.
Thought record (Child)
A flowchart on the rational process of thought followed by a great journal to help work through these thoughts.
A worksheet that can teach the tool to understand that your thinking might not always be rational.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
This page describes core belief, it’s importance, and things you can do to help build this.
Ref: Therapist Aid, LLC.
A description of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and how it could be helpful.
Couple
A worksheet designed to help both parties understand a disagreement and what can be done to remedy it.
A flowchart that aids with managing conflict and finding a way to communicate.
Decreasing Criticism and Judgement in Your Relationship
A worksheet used to take a step back and start decreasing reasons for conflict.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
A worksheet that helps aid mindfulness in response to certain events and the feelings they created.
Ref: Parlay International
A guide that describes thoughts and feelings that cause failures in communication.
This page is a wonderful checklist that could help define positive growth in a relationship.
Another checklist dedicated to sharing with your spouse to promote helping each other grow.
Ref: The Marriage Clinic
A flowchart that demonstrates why relationships can hit rough patches and even fail.
A helpful guide to understanding your partner based on body-language and physicality.
A map that helps partners understand each other as well as why they feel that way.
Ref: The Sound Marital House Questionnaires
Making_Deposits into the Emotional Bank of a_ relationship
A worksheet that can be helpful to change the mindset of a couple in relation to what they do for each other.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
This worksheet is a wonderful tool that can help someone assess problems in their life and what they can do to fix it.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Real Map of Your Partners Life
A tool that can be utilized to better understand your partner and how they go about their days.
Roadblocks To Effective Communication
A score sheet that can help determine better ways to communicate.
An effective way of deciphering arguments and disagreements and finding a way to make them work.
Using I Statements to Communicate Effectively
This worksheet can help find ways to make communication more efficient.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Your Marriages Perpetual Issues
This checklist can help a couple determine areas in which they could grow together.
The 5 C’s of communication are an excellent foundation for any relationship and could lead to very clear boundaries.
These ideas are wonderful for understanding why communication can be so difficult.
Decision Making
This page lays the groundwork for understanding three options that are available in any situation.
Guarenteed Ways to Make Yourself Miserable
This list is for understanding how one could be responsible for their own negativity through the decisions they make.
Depression
This page is used to decide what could be done to increase activity and slow down depression.
Ref: Center for Clinical Interventions
Creating a Hope to Achieve Your Goals
A helpful worksheet that aids in finding something to look forward to.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
This is a great tool to help reassess values and the treatment of others.
A worksheet designed to promote the importance of self-compassion
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Developing Your Happiness Intelligence
A worksheet meant to help understand the idea of happiness and some ways to find it.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
A worksheet meant to help occupy and uplift the user.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
A map that can help someone figure out how they can positively grow in their life.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
A journal with the intention of finding things to be grateful for everyday.
Guaranteed Ways to Make Yourself Miserable
This list is great for understanding how one could be responsible for their own negativity through the decisions they make.
A wonderful tool to help someone assess their ideals of their self-image.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Preparing form Difficult Conversations
This page can be used to aid someone to have a complicated discussion that needs to be had.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Stopping the Cycle of Self Hatred
A tool to help break patterns in negative self-talk.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
A great demonstration of what is happening over a larger amount of time.
Ref: Center for Clinical Interventions
A tool that can be used to find comfortability in any situation.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
A description of depression that helps one figure out why their mind is the way that it is.
Ref: Center for Clinical Interventions
Wellness Wheel is a tool that can help you see how you’re doing in 7 areas of wellness.
Family
A tool that can help families decide to work together and communicate more effectively.
A helpful worksheet for determining family values such as allowance and chores.
A guide/walkthrough for families helping a teenage child with depression.
A helpful worksheet designed to better help children understand their actions and the outcomes.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Goal Setting
This tool is helpful for setting goals and finding ways to accomplish them.
A helpful guide to grief and understanding the different kinds that can occur.
Ref: Center for Clinical Interventions
This page is a comprehensive guide to the facts of grief and what they entail.
Ref: TherapistAid
A great model that can be used to better understand grief and how it can be overcome
Ref: PsychologyTools
Mindfullness/Relaxation/Breathing
A video that can be used for relaxation and breathing.
Ref: GoZenOnline
5 Minute Relaxation Meditation
A video that can promote helpful relaxation tools and clear the mind.
Ref: Jess Flemming
This is a tool for mindfulness, clarity, and intention
Ref: CBC News
This demonstration shows why managing emotions can be so important.
Ref: R. Keeth Matheny
A great video demonstrating ways for children to relax.
Ref: Steph Janzen
This tool can be used to get a personalized plan of meditation to find your calm.
Ref: Calm
This is a description of mindfulness and the power it can have.
Ref: Center for Clinical Interventions
This is a video to take a step back and listen to while you meditate or relax.
Ref: NatureASMR
A video that can help check-in with your mind and body.
A document that can help decipher steps that need to be taken to find self-love.
The video includes a check-in with your mind, body & heart, a self-compassion practice to release oxytocin &
use self-affirmations (for science & suggestions go to positivepsychology.com/daily-affirmations ,
and we close with gratitude
A great tool to help relax and create mindfulness.
Ref: KidsHealth
This page is a great toolkit for finding out about stress and how to manage it.
A video demonstrating ways to do yoga while at a desk.
Ref: YogaWithAdrienne
Why Mindfulness is a Superpower
A video describing the power of mindfulness.
Ref: Twill
Misc
A worksheet that can be used as an exercise to assess self-talk.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Autobiography In Five Short Chapters
This is an descriptive writing that can demonstrate depression and what it can look like.
Behavior Activation (increase activity)
This page showing what the cycle of change can look like.
This worksheet is a great tool for making a change that can last.
Ref: Dr. Henry Steinberger
A helpful worksheet that can have one understand and identify their feelings.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
This is a great chart that can describe positive and negative outcomes of contributing to a positive family dynamic.
This write-up is a great demonstration on how communication works when it’s a one-way street.
This is a great write-up that can help one better understand their thought cycles and feelings.
Ref: Center for Clinical Intervention
A great tool for understanding yourself and how you are perceived.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Is This The Hill I Choose To Die On
This picture demonstrates the idea of choosing your battles.
This worksheet can help with the understanding of cause and effect.
Ref: PsychologyTools
Maintaining-Strong-Social-Connections
This worksheet can help anyone working on maintaining relationships.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
This worksheet can help make a plan for where you want to be in life.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
This diary can be helpful in seeing the progress made.
Preparing for Difficult Conversations
A Woksheet to identify techniques tom prepare for difficult conversations
It’s a story about how important making a difference in people’s lives,
even if it is just one. It’s a great video to encourage teachers,
fostering families, and adoption parents.
This page can help show the process of healthy thinking.
Ref: Center for Clinical Intervention
Using a Diary to manage Intense Feelings
A wonderful document that can be used to help understand thoughts feelings and emotions.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Quick Tips For Optimal Mental Health
Some wonderful tips for managing to create a better landscape in your mind.
A page dedicated to defining and demonstrating values.
Ref: PsychologyTools
This can show the affects anything in the wheel can have on your health and well-being.
Insights on life learning lessons
OCD
This is a great demonstrative page that can show the affects of OCD
Ref: PsychologyTools
A great page that can help find new ways to manage OCD.
Ref: Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD.
A great tool for learning and understanding your personal limits and boundaries.
Ref: Center for Clinical Intervention
Self Esteem
This page can help understand that change can be made and it can be positive.
A worksheet that can be helpful in changing the nature of self-talk.
Ref: Between Sessions Resources
Guidelines for Effective Self promotion
This is a great tool for creating a positive self-image and promoting positivity.
Ref: REBT Resource Book
Thoughts to Help Increase Self-Acceptance
A great write-up that can help understand why negative self-talk occurs and how to fix it.
Ref: REBT Resource Book
Sleep
Tips that can help provide tips for how and why you need to get sleep.
A list of tools that can be used to help release some of the stressors that are occurring.
Stress Relief Toolkit (chjildren)
How do we handle STRESS and find time to relax and take care of ourselves during difficult times?
Ref: Verywell
An extremely helpful tool for deciphering if the addiction is talking or not.
A worksheet that can be used to log addictive behaviors.
This tool is imperative for understanding limits with alcohol and how it can affect you.
Ref: Moderation Management
Difference Between Decision to Use and Releapse (What to Look For)
Helpful list of warning signs to look out for when possibly coming towards a relapse.
This worksheet offers methods to aid in recovering from triggers, and prevent relapse.
Ref: F. Michler Bishop, REBT Resource Book for Practitioners, 2000
A document that can help evaluate the cycle and keep the recovery process going.
A handout that illustrates the different stages of motivation to change/address a problem.
This is the perfect graphic to demonstrate overcoming addiction and where it could lead.
Warning signs of codependent behavior
This handout describes steps in preventing relapse
Urge cards reinforce how using and giving into the urge just reinforces giving into urges in the future.
This handout explains how drug screens work(urinalysis)
Data from the 2015 National Alcohol Survey (NAS) consisting of individuals residing in 50 states
and Washington DC, and looked at the number of drinks both women and men said they consumed per week on average in the previous 12 months.
This handout describes the difference between returning to substance use by choice or slipping(falling of the Wagon.”