Anxiety Disorders
Developing Self-Compassion

This worksheet is designed to help people learn how to be more compassionate toward themselves by imagining an infinitely compassionate imaginary friend, then answering questions as if that friend were talking to them. (self-compassion, depression, anxiety, 0218)

Things That Make You Smile

This simple exercise encourages people to think about the things that make them smile and to practice “random smiling” through the day. In doing this, people can learn how easy it is to get in touch with their positive emotions. (art therapy, serotonin, 0118)

Your Worries Are Just Thoughts

This worksheet is intended to help people understand and accept that the worries that trigger their anxieties are just thoughts. (0118, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, GAD, worry)

Building a Support System When You Are Sexually Harassed

This worksheet is designed to help people who have been sexually harassed deal with their emotions by turning to others rather than seeking social isolation. (workplace, PTSD, social connection, 1213)

The Movie In Your Head Is Not Real

This worksheet is designed to help people understand that their worries are not real and that they do not have to respond to them as if they were a real danger. The worksheet helps people learn to observe their worries as if they were watching a movie. (GAD, 1117, CBT)

Give Up Seeking Reassurance

This worksheet is designed to help people understand that seeking constant reassurance for the things that they worry about only serves to make them worry more. It asks people to identify the people they turn to for reassurance and ask them not to participate in this cycle of worrying and anxiety. (GAD, anxiety, worry, 1017)

Embracing Your Worries with Humor

Avoiding worries typically just makes things worse. Instead, new therapies suggest that people embrace their worries and try to think about for an extended period of time. This worksheet provides a variety of ways that people can humorously focus on their worries rather than avoiding them. (GAD, worry, anxiety disorders, desensitization, 0917)

Reducing Situational Stress

This worksheet is designed to help people identify their situational stress and determine how specific stresses can be reduced. (0817)

Building a Support System to Overcome Your Problems

This worksheet is designed to help people build a support system to not only address an immediate problem, but to enhance the quality of their lives.

Activities That Help Counteract Your Stress

This worksheet is designed to help people identify daily activities which can help reduce the effects of chronic stress.