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156 professional CBT resources
Identify and challenge positive beliefs about worrying — the beliefs that keep you worrying because you think it helps.
Design, carry out, and reflect on behavioural experiments to test anxious predictions and unhelpful beliefs.
Review evidence for and against a core belief across different life periods — childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
Identify a core belief, rate its conviction, gather evidence for and against, and develop a more balanced alternative.
Test the belief that thinking something makes it more likely to happen (likelihood TAF) or that thinking something is morally equivalent to doing it (moral TAF).
Identify and challenge negative beliefs about worry — the beliefs that worry is uncontrollable or dangerous.
Weigh up the costs and benefits of specific health anxiety behaviours — checking, Googling, reassurance-seeking — to build motivation for change.
Compare the effects of self-focused attention vs external focus during social situations to test whether self-focus makes anxiety worse.
Identify and challenge positive beliefs about mania/hypomania that reduce motivation for relapse prevention — e.g. "I'm more creative when high."
Build a hierarchy of appearance-related situations you avoid, ranked by distress, to guide graded exposure.
Gather normalising evidence by surveying others about whether they experience the same body sensations and fears — challenging the belief that your experience is abnormal.
Identify and challenge stuck points — the unhelpful beliefs about the trauma and its aftermath that maintain PTSD symptoms.
Create a plan for managing pain flare-ups — covering prevention, early action, and what to do at each level of severity.
Track PTSD symptoms across the four DSM-5 clusters — intrusion, avoidance, negative cognitions and mood, and arousal and reactivity — to monitor progress through treatment.
Track changes in a specific social belief across multiple experiments — building cumulative evidence for an updated view of yourself in social situations.
Track rumination episodes and analyse their triggers, content, function, and consequences — to understand why you ruminate and what alternatives might work.
A comprehensive plan for maintaining progress after therapy — covering warning signs, coping strategies, and an action plan for setbacks.
Create a personalised plan for protecting sleep — the single most important modifiable risk factor for mood episodes in bipolar disorder.
Track gradual reduction in body checking behaviours — setting targets, monitoring frequency, and recording what happens when you check less.
Trace a problem behaviour back through the chain of vulnerability factors, events, thoughts, emotions, and actions that led to it — then identify intervention points.
Challenge contamination-specific appraisals by examining the realistic probability of harm, the role of disgust vs danger, and what "clean enough" means.
A formulation based on Dugas' intolerance of uncertainty model — mapping IU, positive beliefs about worry, negative problem orientation, and cognitive avoidance.
Identify and challenge catastrophic thoughts about pain — helplessness, magnification, and rumination.
A cognitive formulation of substance misuse based on Beck et al.'s (1993) model. Maps the pathway from early experiences through beliefs and automatic thoughts to substance use and its maintaining cycle.