Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Worksheets

These are ways of thinking that aren’t actually true, but feel true in the moment. When we can name cognitive distortions, it can be easier to pause and look at a situation from a new perspective.

Cognitive restructuring can help interrupt and change negative thought patterns that contribute many feelings like sadness, worry, frustration, or distress.

Behavior activation, or activity scheduling, is a cognitive behavioral technique that has been shown to help people overcome low motivation, fatigue, and feeling down.

Use this thought record worksheet to describe a difficult experience and what you thought, felt, and did. Then challenge your thought and explore the results.

Use this CBT triangle to break down an emotional experience into the situation you were facing, your thoughts (words or images that went through your head), feelings (emotions), and behaviors.

This exposure and response prevention worksheet helps you understand how ERP for OCD works and record the practice you plan with your therapist in a simple log.

This downward arrow technique worksheet helps you find the core belief under an upsetting thought, with a worked example, guiding questions, and space to question the belief.

This worry time worksheet helps you set aside a daily slot to worry on purpose, with steps for saving worries, a worry list, and a plan for worry time.

This SUDS scale worksheet helps you rate how upset or anxious you feel from 0 to 100, with a guide to each level, personal anchors, and a tracking log.

This decatastrophizing worksheet helps you calm worst-case thinking, with a worked example, questions to weigh the real odds, and space to plan how you would cope.

Download all of our best CBT worksheets for teens in one convenient workbook, designed to help teens learn and practice core ideas from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Designed for teens, this worksheet turns a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) technique into a “trial” to examine evidence for and against a distorted thought.

Designed for teens, this worksheet helps them practice distinguishing facts from opinions, an important foundation for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

This Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) worksheet helps teens become familiar with automatic thoughts and practice catching them in the moment.

Many therapy approaches recommend increasing the number of pleasant events in your daily life. You can use this worksheet to generate ideas for potential pleasant events.

This worksheet is designed to help you get familiar with your automatic thoughts.

This worksheet is designed to help you learn and explore three ways that core beliefs affect us. Core beliefs matter because they affect how we perceive and react to the world.

Core beliefs are the deeply held ideas you have about yourself, others, and the world. CBT suggests that we can begin to identify our core beliefs by exploring the meaning of our more surface-level thoughts.

Socratic Questioning is a technique from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that helps us get out of the “tunnel” and look at things from new perspectives using logical questions for reflection.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is kind of like being in a courtroom. This worksheet helps you put distorted thoughts on trial.