CBT Worksheets
16 worksheets available. Free to browse, read, and print.
Automatic Thoughts: Understanding Your Mental Reflexes
Recognizing and Reframing Automatic Thought Patterns
CBT Practice Exercises: Reframing Reactive Thoughts
Practice Exercises for Anger-Related Cognitive Restructuring
CBT Thinking Errors: Common Cognitive Distortions
Recognizing Thinking Patterns That Distort Reality
CBT Thought Record
Identifying and restructuring automatic thoughts
Challenging Negative Thoughts: Evaluating Depressive Thinking
Six Questions for Testing the Accuracy of Negative Automatic Thoughts
Cognitive Distortions
Recognizing and challenging common patterns of biased thinking
Cognitive Distortions: A Thinking Traps Self-Check
Identify which cognitive distortions show up most in your life
Identifying Your Core Beliefs
Uncover the deeply held assumptions that shape your thoughts, feelings, and behavior
Mapping the Cognitive Triangle
Tracking the Connection Between Thoughts, Emotions, and Behaviors
Testing Core Beliefs Against the Evidence
How confirmation bias maintains negative core beliefs and how to counteract it
The CBT Cognitive Model: Thought-Feeling-Behavior Log
Mapping the connection between situations, thoughts, emotions, and actions
The CBT Model: How Thoughts Shape Emotions and Behavior
Understanding the Cognitive Behavioral Model of Anger and Reactivity
The Cognitive Behavioral Cycle Worksheet
Mapping the connection between situations, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
Thought Log for Countering Negative Thoughts
Identify, evaluate, and reframe negative automatic thoughts with balanced alternatives
Thought Testing Through Behavioral Experiments
A structured approach to evaluating beliefs through direct experience
Understanding Core Beliefs
What core beliefs are, how they form, and why they matter for mental health
Free CBT treatment manuals
Complete open-access protocols from SAMHSA, NIDA, the VA, and WHO that pair with the worksheets above. Each one links to the official source, free and legal to use.
Anger Management CBT Manual
A 12-week cognitive behavioral group protocol for treating anger problems in adults with substance use or mental health conditions, written by Reilly and Shopshire for SAMHSA. Each session gives the group leader suggested remarks, exercises, and homework, covering anger cues and triggers, anger control plans, the aggression cycle, A-B-C-D cognitive restructuring, assertiveness, and conflict resolution.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Manuals
The complete VA therapist's manual for Cognitive Processing Therapy adapted for veterans and service members, written by the treatment's developers. It walks through all 12 sessions with sample dialogue, session summaries, and progress notes, and a companion volume contains every patient handout.
CBT for Depression Therapist Manual
The VA's full protocol for delivering cognitive behavioral therapy to depressed veterans and service members, written by Amy Wenzel, Gregory Brown, and Bradley Karlin. It walks through CBT theory, case conceptualization, session structure, behavioral and cognitive strategies, and relapse prevention, with session-by-session guidance and reproducible clinical forms.
CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I) Therapist Manual
A session-by-session therapist guide to CBT-I, the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia, written by Rachel Manber, Jack Edinger, Colleen Carney, and colleagues for the VA's national CBT-I training rollout. It walks through case conceptualization, sleep restriction, stimulus control, cognitive therapy for unhelpful sleep beliefs, and relapse prevention.
CBT for Chronic Pain (CBT-CP) Therapist Manual
The VA's national training manual for delivering cognitive behavioral therapy to adults with chronic pain, built around a structured session-by-session protocol covering pain education, relaxation training, activity pacing, cognitive restructuring, and sleep. It includes three running case examples, assessment guidance, and all therapist and patient worksheets in the appendices.
CBT Coping Skills Therapy Manual
The CBT treatment arm manual from Project MATCH, the largest clinical trial of alcohol treatments ever run in the United States. It walks therapists through 12 structured sessions of coping skills training for alcohol use disorder, including managing cravings, drink refusal, problem solving, anger, and planning for high-risk relapse situations.