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Mental Health Workbooks for Anxiety, Depression, & Trauma
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items Mental health workbooks are a practical way to build coping skills, increase self-awareness, and support your healing journey outside of therapy. This curated list includes some of the most effective resources based in evidence-based approaches like ...
Sections
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CBT & ACT
Trauma
OCD
DBT
Couples
CBT & ACT
This Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) workbook is for anxiety, depression, and mental wellness. This helps you change your thought life, emotions, and actions to live your best life.
The CBT Workbook for Mental Health : Evidence-Based Exercises to Transform Negative Thoughts and Manage Your Well-Being (Paperback)
This is such a helpful and direct resource for anxiety, worry, sadness, depression, anger, relationship conflict, communication, and emotional regulation.
Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks : A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety (Paperback)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is similar to CBT but validating of emotions and experiences in a deeper way. This is for sadness, tearfulness, depression, numbness, mental health, guilt, emotional healing, mental wellness, and shame.
The ACT Workbook for Depression and Shame: Overcome Thoughts of Defectiveness and Increase Well-Being Using Acceptance a, (Paperback)
Perfectionism, people-pleasing, anxiety, and OCD can feel so debilitating. Individuals can use this workbook to evaluate what lifestyle choices are working, and which need to be adjusted.
The ACT Workbook for Perfectionism - by Jennifer Kemp (Paperback)
Trauma
This is such a cute and funny resource for letting go of the past, healing from childhood trauma, and reclaiming your mental wellness.
Let That Sh*t Go: A Journal for Leaving Your Bullsh*t Behind and Creating a Happy Life (Paperback)
The childhood trauma recovery workbook is great for re writing your story and overcoming the symptoms of C-PTSD or complex trauma that many people with attachment wounds experience.
The Childhood Trauma Recovery Workbook for Adults: Interactive Exercises, Therapeutic Prompts, and CBT/DBT Strategies for Dealing with Depression, Anxiety, Shame, and Other Effects of Abuse|eBook
Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps people understand that there are no bad parts of themselves. This fosters self acceptance, self love, mental health, and wellness. This helps with anxiety, depression, sadness, trauma, or anger.
The Internal Family Systems Workbook - (Sounds True Inner Workbooks) by Richard Schwartz (Paperback)
This Internal Family Systems workbook is a classic!
Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, Ptsd & Substance Abuse (Paperback)
This workbook is for nurturing your inner child, overcoming childhood trauma, and reclaiming your life.
Inner Child Recovery Workbook, 2nd Edition: Heal Childhood Trauma, Abandonment, Neglect, and Abuse. Includes Prompts, Ex, (Paperback)
Inner child work can feel nebulous or complicated. This book is so straightforward.
Inner Workbooks S The Inner Child Workbook: What to Do with Your Past When It Just Won't Go Away, (Paperback)
This is such an easy workbook for beginners to Jungian shadow work, inner child work, and therapy workbooks in general.
Your Inner Child - (A Guided Journal to Heal Your Past and Recover Your Joy) by Kelly Bramblett (Paperback)
OCD
This is such a straightforward workbook for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It addresses ruminative thought loops, and embarrassment due to repetitive actions.
The OCD Workbook : Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Edition 3) (Paperback)
This is a great workbook for empowering clients to practice ERP techniques
The OCD Workbook: Your Step-by-Step Treatment Manual to Understand, Manage and Overcome Obsessive (Paperback) by Mila Von Leiem
DBT
DBT skills are so useful for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), anxiety, depression, attachment wounds, relationship issues, self esteem, and self acceptance. Dialectical Behavior Therapy does not replace safety planning.
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook : Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance (Edition 2) (Paperback)
This workbook has a ton of content. 3 months is a long enough time to build healthy habits and DBT skills
Self-Directed Dbt Skills - by Kiki Fehling & Elliot Weiner (Paperback)
This is also a really good Dialectical Behavior Therapy workbook for anxiety or depression, as well as DBT skills.
Dbt Workbook for Anxiety: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Strategies for Managing Stress, Worry, and Fear, (Paperback)
Couples
This is a great resource for premarital couples, married couples, and engaged couples.
The Dr. Sue Johnson Collection The Hold Me Tight Workbook: A Couple's Guide for a Lifetime of Love, Book 4, (Paperback)
This 8 week workbook is the perfect length for couples who are committed to jumpstarting progress
8-Week Couples Therapy Workbook - by Jill Squyres Groubert (Paperback)