Relationships
Learning How to Negotiate with the VASE Technique

This worksheet teaches people a positive way of negotiating using the VASE technique. This stands for validating what the other person wants, asking for a compromise, suggesting alternatives, expressing yourself in a kind and appropriate manner. (negotiation, mediation, borderline personality disorder, BDP, 0920)

Exploring Your Identity After a Divorce

This worksheet is designed to help people get a better sense of their identity after a divorce. It encourages people to explore their interests, favorite activities, values, and more. (divorce, separation, family therapy, relationship counseling, 0820)

Redefining Your Relationship with Your Ex

This worksheet helps people think about how they can best shape their relationship with an ex-spouse after a divorce. The worksheet suggests a range of new ways to relate to an ex and also points out red flags that might mean it is best to sever ties entirely. The worksheet also provides ways for a person to redefine the past behavior of a spouse to forgive and move on. (divorce, co-parenting, 0820)

Maintaining Strong Social Connections

This worksheet helps people see the importance of building and maintaining strong social connections. This is particularly important during highly stressful times. (resiliency, stress management, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, 0820)

Learning to Appreciate Your Partner

This worksheet is designed to help people focus on the positive things about their partners, rather than just paying to attention to their faults. (marriage, marital therapy, relationships, communication, 0820)

Coping with Sadness Following Your Divorce

This worksheet can help people understand and get past the feelings of sadness and sense of loss that come after a divorce. The worksheet asks people to write a goodbye letter to things from the past and a hello letter to the possibilities of the future. (divorce, narrative therapy, depression, marriage, 0820)

Letting Go of Grudges

This worksheet is designed to help people understand how grudges are affecting their happiness. The worksheet asks people to identify their grudges and then decide how their lives will change if they can let them go. Suggestions are given on how people can learn to forgive and move on. (relationships, forgiveness, marriage, divorce, 0820)

Healing Your Relationship After Infidelity

This worksheet is designed to help couples build trust by committing to specific activities. The worksheet also lists do’s and don’ts to remember in rebuilding a relationship. (marriage counseling, infidelity, couples therapy, 0720)

The Problem with Being a People Pleaser

This worksheet is designed to help people who put pleasing others as more important as trying to fulfill their own needs and desires. The worksheet helps people understand how people pleasing can be a problem and gives them specific ways to practice balancing their own needs with the needs of others. (assertiveness, depression, self-esteem, self-image, 0720)

Practicing Forgiveness

This worksheet gives couples the tools they need to understand and practice forgiveness. (0720, marriage counseling, couples therapy, relationships)