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.

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.

This one-page worksheet can help you explain or understand the cognitive model for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

With this worksheet, practice distinguishing between thoughts, feelings and behaviors – an important skill for many types of therapy.

Core beliefs are the deeply held ideas you have about yourself, others, and the world. This worksheet will help you identify yout core beliefs.

Anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and other conditions can change how we think.  CBT helps us push back against these distorted thoughts by examining the facts (evidence) supporting or refuting a thought.

The ABCDE model is a simple way of breaking down how our thoughts influence our feelings and behaviors.