Psychoeducation
Plain-language handouts that help clients understand what they’re experiencing: anxiety and the alarm system, sleep, the nervous system, thinking traps and more. Each comes with a clinician guide.
Understanding ADHD: Strengths & Challenges
A plain-language ADHD psychoeducation handout covering attention, executive function and emotion regulation, with space to map personal strengths, challenges and supports.
The Anxiety-Avoidance Cycle
An illustrated psychoeducation worksheet showing how avoidance and safety behaviours bring short-term relief but strengthen anxiety, with a table of personal costs…
Adult Attachment Styles Explained
A psychoeducation handout describing secure, anxious, avoidant and fearful adult attachment patterns with reflection on personal patterns and goals.
CBT Triangle: Thoughts, Feelings, Behaviours
A foundational CBT worksheet with the cognitive triangle diagram, fillable boxes for thoughts, feelings and behaviours in a situation, and a reflection…
How Pain Works: Understanding Chronic Pain
A pain neuroscience education handout explaining pain as a protective brain output, sensitization, volume-up and volume-down factors and personal reflections.
Thinking Traps: Spot & Reframe
A one-page psychoeducation handout covering twelve common cognitive distortions. Each one comes with a short question that helps loosen it, followed by…
DBT Skills At a Glance
A one-page DBT overview summarizing the four skill modules and key skills, with a checklist of skills learned and a weekly focus…
The Depression Cycle Explained
An illustrated depression psychoeducation handout showing the cycle of low mood, withdrawal, fewer rewards and negative thinking, with space to map a…
How Exposure & Response Prevention Works
A psychoeducation handout explaining the OCD cycle, exposure, response prevention, what clients learn and common misconceptions, with space for the client's own…
Fight, Flight, Freeze: Your Alarm System
A plain-language psychoeducation handout explaining the fight, flight and freeze responses and why each physical symptom of anxiety happens, with space for…
Supporting a Grieving Child: Caregiver Guide
A caregiver psychoeducation handout with six practical tips for supporting grieving children, plus space for children's questions and caregiver self-support.
How Sleep Works: Sleep Drive & Body Clock
A plain-language CBT-I handout explaining sleep drive and the body clock (the two-process model of sleep), common insomnia traps, and space for…
Intrusive Thoughts Are Normal
A plain-language psychoeducation handout explaining that intrusive thoughts are universal, what makes them stick versus pass, common themes, and space to plan…
The OCD Cycle: Map Yours
A psychoeducation worksheet that helps clients map their personal OCD cycle (trigger, obsession, meaning, compulsion, relief) and identify where to break it.
The Panic Cycle Explained
An illustrated psychoeducation handout of the panic cycle (trigger, perceived threat, anxiety, sensations, catastrophic thought), with prompts to identify personal patterns and…
Scary Thoughts After Baby: A Guide
A psychoeducation and CBT worksheet normalizing perinatal intrusive harm thoughts, explaining what maintains them, what helps and when to seek urgent care.
Spontaneous & Responsive Desire
A sex therapy psychoeducation worksheet explaining spontaneous and responsive desire, identifying helpful contexts and brakes, and preparing a message for a partner.
Sexual Scripts Reflection
A sex therapy worksheet mapping sexual messages from family, culture, school, peers, media and experiences, evaluating each and writing a new personal…
Starting Therapy: What to Expect
A client-facing guide describing the phases of therapy, with prompts for goals and questions and a checklist for getting the most from…
The Stress Bucket
A psychoeducation worksheet based on the stress bucket metaphor: mapping stressors, vulnerabilities, helpful and unhelpful 'taps', current fullness and one change.
Understanding Trauma Responses
A plain-language trauma psychoeducation handout describing four groups of common post-trauma reactions and four survival responses, with space for personal reflection.
Understanding Bipolar Disorder
A client and family handout explaining mania, hypomania and depression, what helps, common triggers, plus space for early warning signs and questions.
Understanding Perinatal Mood & Anxiety
A psychoeducation handout distinguishing baby blues, perinatal depression and perinatal anxiety/OCD, with urgent warning signs, what helps and a support plan.
Window of Tolerance: Map & Tracker
An illustrated psychoeducation sheet and personal tracker for the window of tolerance model. Clients map their own signs of hyper- and hypo-arousal…
PTSD and Complex PTSD Explained
A client handout comparing PTSD and complex PTSD, describing core and additional symptoms, why they develop and what helps, with reflection space.
What Is EMDR Therapy? (Client Handout)
A client handout explaining EMDR therapy, the preparation and processing phases, the stop signal and between-session effects, with space for questions.
Emotional Dysregulation, Explained
A client handout explaining emotional dysregulation, vulnerability factors and emotion regulation skills, with a personal plan for a dominant emotion.
Feelings and Needs: What’s Underneath?
A worksheet with six need categories and a log linking situations, feelings, underlying needs and ways to meet them or make requests.
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Explained
A client handout explaining functional neurological disorder with a software-hardware metaphor, what helps, what worsens symptoms and personal reflections.
Grief Comes in Waves
A client handout explaining grief as waves, oscillation between facing loss and restoration, normal grief experiences and personal coping.
IBS and the Gut-Brain Connection
A client handout explaining IBS as a disorder of gut-brain interaction, volume-up and volume-down factors, with a weekly gut symptom and stress…
How to Regulate Your Nervous System
A client handout explaining nervous system states and the window of tolerance, with personal signs and strategies for each state.
Understanding Dissociation
A client handout explaining dissociation as a protective response, common experiences, early warning signs, triggers and grounding strategies.
What Is IFS (Internal Family Systems)? Client Handout
A client handout introducing IFS concepts of parts, managers, firefighters, exiles and Self, with reflection on a known part.
Why Can’t I Sleep When I’m Stressed?
A client handout explaining stress-related insomnia and hyperarousal, factors that keep people wired, wind-down strategies and a personal plan.
Why Am I So Hard on Myself?
A client handout exploring the inner critic's messages, protective intentions, origins and a compassionate coach response, with a belief rating.
Mood Life Chart
A life chart worksheet mapping past mood episodes by date, type and severity, with life events, triggers and treatment changes, and noted…
How CBT for Insomnia Works
A psychoeducation handout explaining CBT-I components (sleep diary, sleep scheduling, stimulus control, cognitive work) and expectations.
Common OCD Themes
A psychoeducation worksheet listing common OCD themes, including harm, relationship, scrupulosity and taboo thoughts, and the client's own pattern.
When Grief Feels Stuck: Prolonged Grief
A psychoeducation handout describing prolonged grief, how it differs from typical grief, common signs after a year or more, and space for…