PTSD / Trauma worksheets
13 evidence-based resources for PTSD / Trauma. Preview any worksheet, then assign it to a client as an interactive digital worksheet.
Written by Tarun Vermani, Trainee Clinical Psychologist Last reviewed
These worksheets support trauma-focused CBT, with the deepest coverage following Ehlers and Clark's cognitive model of PTSD (2000) — the model behind cognitive therapy for PTSD (CT-PTSD). Grounding techniques and psychoeducation on trauma, the brain, and flashbacks support the early phase; the PTSD Formulation (Ehlers & Clark) then maps appraisals, memory characteristics, and maintaining strategies with your client; and the active-treatment set — hotspot identification, reliving preparation, trigger discrimination, site visit planning, and reclaiming-life activity planning — mirrors the protocol's core procedures.
Two further worksheets support cognitive processing therapy (CPT): an impact statement and appraisal work on stuck points. Everything here is designed for use within a structured, trauma-focused therapy at a pace you judge right — not as standalone self-help. The Ehlers and Clark model is also free to explore as an interactive, referenced formulation diagram.
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PTSD / Trauma
PTSD Formulation (Ehlers & Clark)
A formulation based on Ehlers and Clark's cognitive model of PTSD — mapping the nature of the trauma memory, negative appraisals, sense of current threat, and the maintaining strategies.
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Trauma Impact Statement
Explore how the traumatic event has affected your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world.
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Trigger Discrimination Worksheet (Then vs Now)
Identify triggers that activate trauma memories and systematically compare the original trauma context with the present reality to reduce flashback intensity.
PTSD / Trauma
Grounding Techniques Practice
Practise and record the use of grounding techniques when experiencing flashbacks, dissociation, or overwhelming emotions.
PTSD / Trauma
Reliving Preparation & Processing Worksheet
Prepare for trauma reliving sessions and process the experience afterwards — tracking hotspots, emotions, and updated meanings.
PTSD / Trauma
Hotspot Identification & Meaning Worksheet
Identify the "hotspot" moments in a trauma memory — the moments of peak emotion — and work on updating their personal meaning.
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Trauma Appraisal Worksheet
Identify and challenge stuck points — the unhelpful beliefs about the trauma and its aftermath that maintain PTSD symptoms.
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PTSD Symptom Diary
Track PTSD symptoms across the four DSM-5 clusters — intrusion, avoidance, negative cognitions and mood, and arousal and reactivity — to monitor progress through treatment.
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Site Visit Planning & Reflection
Prepare for a visit to the trauma site, record predictions, and process the experience afterwards to update the trauma memory.
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Reclaiming Life Activity Plan
Identify valued activities lost to PTSD and plan a graded return to engagement with life.
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Trauma Impact Statement (CPT)
Write a structured impact statement exploring how the trauma has affected your beliefs about safety, trust, power, esteem, and intimacy.
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Trauma and the Brain
A plain-language explainer on why trauma reactions happen, why they are normal responses to abnormal events, and what keeps them going.
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Coping with Flashbacks
A gentle explainer on what flashbacks are, why they happen, and a personal first-aid plan of grounding steps to use in the moment - for use alongside trauma-focused therapy.
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Which CBT model do these PTSD worksheets follow?
The core pathway follows Ehlers and Clark's cognitive model of PTSD (2000), the model behind cognitive therapy for PTSD (CT-PTSD) — one of the trauma-focused therapies NICE recommends for adults with PTSD. Two additional worksheets — an impact statement and stuck-point appraisal work — support cognitive processing therapy (CPT).
Can I send these trauma worksheets to clients directly?
They are designed for use within therapy, not as standalone self-help. In practice most clinicians introduce a worksheet in session first, then assign it for between-session completion where appropriate — grounding practice and psychoeducation lend themselves to this, while reliving and hotspot work stay anchored to sessions. Pacing and suitability remain your clinical judgement.
What is trigger discrimination (then versus now)?
A core CT-PTSD procedure. Re-experiencing is cued by sensory matches to the trauma, so the client learns to spot today's trigger, identify what it matched then, and attend to the differences now — loosening the memory's here-and-now quality. The Trigger Discrimination Worksheet structures exactly this, with a grounding step built in.
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