Urge Surfing Worksheet Overview
Urge surfing is a powerful tool from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for staying in control. With this urge surfing worksheet, learn what urges are and how you can “ride the wave” of urges until they naturally decrease in strength.
In this worksheet, we’ll cover the following:
- What is urge surfing?
- What are urges?
- What does urge surfing feel like?
- Urge surfing and mindfulness
- Charting urges
- Coping with urges
Additional Urge Surfing Worksheets & Handouts
Below you’ll find a simplified version of our urge surfing worksheet that therapists can use with clients.
Urge Surfing (Handout)
This one-page handout summarizes the concept of urge surfing and links to related worksheets with more detail.
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