Free Social Anxiety CBT Worksheets and Workbooks Collection

Trying to understand why conversations, meetings, parties, phone calls, public speaking or being watched can feel so threatening is the main task supported here. The module explains social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, in a clear CBT-based way, covering fears of negative evaluation, embarrassment, humiliation and criticism, as well as common anxiety symptoms such as blushing, trembling, sweating, a pounding heart, going blank and the urge to escape.

The content is especially suited to adults experiencing social anxiety and to clinicians using structured psychoeducation in therapy sessions. It includes reflective writing prompts on negative thoughts, avoided social situations and safety behaviours, helping users map how social threat, avoidance and coping strategies keep anxiety going. The visible contents also point to a model of social anxiety and a personal model exercise, making it practical for counselling, CBT work, mental health support, or independent self-help.

In therapy sessions, counselling appointments or self-help work at home, this module can be used to help clients slow down and examine the thoughts that fuel social anxiety. It explains the thought-feeling connection, shows how people can overestimate the probability and cost of feared social outcomes, and introduces a structured Thought Challenging Record for anxious social situations.

The PDF includes a worked example about entering a work lunch room, with prompts for identifying the trigger situation, negative thoughts, anxiety rating, contrary evidence, realistic probability and consequences, a helpful image, visualisation, and re-rating anxiety. It is likely to suit adults, older teenagers, CBT clients, psychologists, counsellors and mental health practitioners looking for a printable social anxiety worksheet, cognitive restructuring exercise, thought record or social phobia self-help handout.

When avoidance is keeping someone with social anxiety stuck, this CBT module gives a clear structure for approaching feared situations in smaller, testable steps. It covers common avoided situations such as phone calls, appointments, emails, public places, unfamiliar people and large groups, then explains the vicious cycle of anxiety and avoidance, including how short-term relief can strengthen negative expectations over time.

Included are behavioural experiment steps, prompts for identifying negative predictions, anxiety ratings, planning an experiment, choosing objective evidence, recording results and drawing conclusions. It is especially suited to adults and older teenagers working on social anxiety, as well as counsellors, CBT therapists, mental health practitioners and support workers who want printable psychoeducation and practical exposure-style worksheets for sessions, homework or guided self-help.

When someone knows they need to face social situations but feels overwhelmed by starting with the hardest one, a behavioural experiment stepladder gives them a clear way to begin. The module explains how avoidance keeps anxiety going, then shows how to choose an area for change, identify negative predictions, and design graded behavioural experiments, exposure steps, anxiety ladders, or fear hierarchies that move from mild to more challenging social situations.

Examples include sharing ideas at work and expanding a social network, with anxiety ratings out of 10 for each step. It is likely to be most useful for adults with social anxiety or social phobia, CBT practitioners, counsellors, mental health workers, and support staff helping someone plan practical exposure tasks between sessions. The prompts can be used in therapy, at home, or as printed self-help worksheets for building confidence with conversations, meetings, group activities, and new social contacts.

Reducing reliance on safety behaviours is the main support offered here, with clear psychoeducation for people working on social anxiety, social phobia, fear of embarrassment, avoidance, self-consciousness and anxious social interactions. The module explains what safety behaviours are, using examples such as wearing headphones to avoid conversation, staying quiet in tutorials or meetings, avoiding eye contact, rehearsing what to say, using alcohol or drugs to cope, wearing inconspicuous clothes, keeping conversation focused on others, and carrying anxiety medication for reassurance.

Pages are structured around recognising the function of a behaviour, understanding how subtle avoidance blocks real testing of feared predictions, and noticing when safety behaviours become self-fulfilling prophecies or increase self-focused attention. Counsellors, CBT therapists, mental health practitioners, support workers, university wellbeing staff, and people using self-help for social anxiety could use the prompts to identify personal safety behaviours and prepare behavioural experiments where those behaviours are gradually dropped.

Use it in CBT sessions, guided self-help work or between-session home practice to help someone notice where their attention goes in social situations. The module explains self-focused attention, environment-focused attention and task-focused attention, with clear examples such as monitoring anxiety sensations, rehearsing what to say, looking for criticism, or misreading yawns and pauses as negative judgement.

Practical exercises encourage daily attention training through ordinary activities such as walking, showering, eating, washing dishes and brushing teeth, using touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste as anchors. People searching for social anxiety worksheets, social phobia CBT handouts, attention training exercises, mindfulness for social anxiety, or conversation focus strategies may find it especially relevant for adults, older teens and clients learning to reduce unhelpful self-monitoring.

Use it in practice to help adults or older teenagers with social anxiety compare their feared self-image with more objective evidence, particularly through behavioural experiments and video feedback. The module explains how people can overestimate how obvious their anxiety symptoms are, then links this to self-focused attention, increased social threat, avoidance, and the urge to escape social or performance situations.

Included are reflective prompts, examples of common fears about appearing anxious, ideas for recorded experiments, ways to test the perceived cost of showing anxiety symptoms, and a completed behavioural experiment record. It is especially relevant for CBT therapists, mental health practitioners, and people working through social anxiety self-help who want a structured printable resource on negative self-imagery, observable anxiety symptoms, and testing predictions in real situations.

Everyday reflection on social anxiety often brings up repeated thoughts about being judged, disliked, boring, incompetent or rejected, and this module focuses on spotting the deeper beliefs underneath those patterns. It explains what core beliefs are, how they can develop from earlier experiences, how they influence attention and interpretation, and why they can make anxious predictions feel convincing even after thought challenging.

Included are practical CBT exercises for identifying core beliefs through recurring themes in thought diaries, a downward arrow technique, and evidence-testing prompts to gather real-life examples that challenge rigid beliefs. It is likely to be useful for adults with social anxiety, counsellors, CBT therapists, psychologists, mental health practitioners and support workers looking for a printable anxiety worksheet, social phobia handout or core belief challenging activity to use in sessions or between-session practice.

Adults and older teenagers working through CBT for social anxiety, along with psychologists, counsellors and wellbeing practitioners supporting clients, may find this module useful when negative core beliefs are starting to shift but still feel familiar. It explains how to strengthen new balanced beliefs through action, including approaching avoided situations, reducing safety behaviours, being more assertive, staying with challenges and collecting evidence from real-life experiences.

The module includes examples of core belief action plans, such as volunteering at an animal shelter or reconnecting with a friend, then moves into prompts for creating a personal plan across relationships, family life, work, study, career, hobbies, leisure, health and wellbeing. The printable action plan worksheet can be used in therapy sessions, social anxiety self-help work, group CBT programmes or between-session practice to set targets for change, plan specific actions, identify obstacles and choose coping strategies. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Adults and older teenagers who have been working through social anxiety, social phobia or shyness CBT materials may find this module useful as a printable relapse prevention and maintenance plan. It brings together key skills from the programme, including thought challenging, behavioural experiments, dropping safety behaviours, attention training, video feedback, and identifying and challenging negative core beliefs.

The module includes a structured “My Dealing with Setbacks Plan” worksheet with prompts for triggers, warning signs, reminders, and practical actions to take when anxiety starts to increase again. It can be used in therapy sessions, guided self-help, counselling, wellbeing work, or at home by clients who want a clear social anxiety setback plan for keeping gains going and responding to slip-ups without returning to avoidance.

In a counselling room, GP appointment, student wellbeing session or at home after a difficult social experience, this one-page social anxiety handout can help someone put words to what has been happening. It covers anxiety in social situations such as being the centre of attention, meeting new people, talking to people in authority, presentations, parties, social gatherings and being watched while eating, drinking, signing a name or doing everyday tasks.

The sheet is especially suited to adults, older teens, university students and clients beginning therapy for social anxiety, social phobia, fear of judgement, embarrassment, blushing, panic-like symptoms or avoidance. It is structured around thoughts, physical symptoms and avoidance, with examples such as worrying about what others think, fear of criticism, racing heart, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, nausea, dizziness, dry mouth and hiding away from social situations.

People looking for practical support with social anxiety, social phobia or anxiety in social situations can use this information sheet to understand the main options often discussed in treatment. It covers medication and cognitive-behavioural strategies, with short sections on physical symptoms such as rapid breathing, sweating and muscle tension, anxious thoughts about being judged, and avoidance of social situations.

The layout makes it suitable for adults or older teenagers experiencing social anxiety, as well as counsellors, therapists, mental health practitioners and support workers who want a printable handout for sessions. It can be used to introduce CBT ideas, prompt discussion about unhelpful thinking, explain why gradual exposure matters, or support someone to prepare questions for their GP or mental health professional.

The breathing retraining exercise gives a step-by-step pattern of breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 2 seconds, and breathing out for 6 seconds, with an easier 3-1-4 option for people who find slowing down difficult at first. It also explains anxious breathing, overbreathing and hyperventilation in plain language, linking fast breathing with dizziness, light-headedness, headaches, weakness, tingling in the hands or feet, muscle stiffness and feeling on edge.

Most suited to adults and older teenagers working on social anxiety, panic symptoms, stress-related breathlessness or general anxiety, it can be printed for CBT sessions, counselling appointments, wellbeing work, or personal practice at home. The handout is particularly useful for therapists, mental health practitioners, social workers and individuals who want a brief breathing exercise, diaphragmatic breathing reminder, paced breathing technique or anxiety coping strategy they can practise once or twice a day.

The progressive muscle relaxation exercise takes the reader through a clear sequence of tensing and relaxing specific muscle groups, starting with the hands and arms and moving through the face, neck, shoulders, chest, stomach, hips, legs and feet. It also explains how muscle tension can be linked with stress, fear and anxiety, including social anxiety, and gives practical preparation points such as choosing a quiet space, sitting comfortably, avoiding heavy meals or intoxicants, and checking with a doctor where injuries or physical problems are present.

Most suited to adults and older teenagers who experience anxiety-related muscle tightness, jaw tension, shoulder tension, back pain or tension headaches, the sheet can be used at home between sessions or introduced by psychologists, counsellors, CBT practitioners and other mental health professionals. The step-by-step PMR routine gives clients a simple relaxation technique to practise consistently, helping them notice the difference between tension and relaxation and build a more helpful physical response to stress.

In everyday CBT practice, reflection or therapy discussions, improving how you feel often starts with noticing the thoughts sitting underneath anxiety, hurt, anger or low mood. Social-Anxiety-Information-Sheet—05—Improving-How-you-Feel is a one-page social anxiety information sheet that explains how perceptions, beliefs and automatic thoughts influence emotions, using clear examples such as meeting someone at a party and interpreting their behaviour in different ways.

The sheet covers the difference between feelings and thoughts, common unhelpful thinking styles, and a practical sequence for identifying feelings, asking “What am I thinking?”, exploring alternative explanations, and replacing an unhelpful thought with a more balanced one. It is likely to be most useful for adults and older teens working on social anxiety, clients using CBT or cognitive restructuring, and therapists, counsellors or support workers who want a brief psychoeducation handout for sessions, homework, self-help or discussion.

When someone needs to separate a social situation from the anxious, hurt or angry feelings that follow, this CBT information sheet gives a clear starting point. It explains how thoughts and beliefs influence emotions, using a party example where different interpretations of another person’s behaviour lead to very different feelings. It also includes sections on automatic thoughts, negative thoughts, neutral and positive thoughts, and why feelings are not the same as thoughts.

Suitable for people working on social anxiety, especially adults or older teenagers using CBT, counselling or self-help materials, it can be printed for therapy sessions, homework, psychoeducation or personal reflection. The feelings word list can help someone name emotions more accurately, while the examples support discussion about anxious thoughts, self-critical thinking, worry, low mood and emotional responses in everyday interactions.

The ABC analysis framework sits at the centre of the sheet, guiding the reader to record an activating event, the emotional and behavioural consequences, and the beliefs or thoughts that may have driven the reaction. It is particularly relevant for people managing social anxiety, anxiety in social situations, low mood, depression-related thinking patterns, or unhelpful automatic thoughts, as it shows how to capture thoughts in a clear and structured way.

Practical thought discovery questions are included, such as “What is bad about that?” and “What does this say about me?”, with a party example showing how an initial thought can lead to deeper fears about being judged or seen as “crazy”. Counsellors, CBT therapists, mental health practitioners and clients can use it in sessions or at home as a printable psychoeducation handout before moving on to detective work, disputation and thought challenging. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

In everyday CBT practice and personal reflection, challenging thoughts often means slowing down long enough to test whether a belief is accurate, realistic and helpful. Social Anxiety Information Sheet – 08 – Challenging your Thinking explains how thoughts influence feelings, emotions and behaviour, then links this to unhelpful thinking styles, automatic beliefs, hot thoughts and the ABC model. The sheet introduces “Detective Work” for gathering evidence for and against a thought, and “Disputation” for asking questions about other viewpoints, likelihood, usefulness and alternative explanations.

The material is most suited to adults and older teenagers working on social anxiety, negative thinking, low mood or distressing self-beliefs, especially where CBT, counselling, therapy or guided self-help is being used. It can be printed for therapy sessions, social anxiety groups, mental health support work or home practice, helping someone revise an unhelpful hot thought into a more balanced thought, then re-rate their emotion and belief afterwards. The practical prompts make it easy to use alongside thought records, ABC worksheets, cognitive restructuring exercises and relapse prevention work.

In everyday CBT practice, reflection or discussion, naming unhelpful thinking patterns can make anxious thoughts feel easier to notice and question. The sheet explains common cognitive distortions including mental filter, jumping to conclusions, personalisation, catastrophising, black and white thinking, shoulding and musting, overgeneralisation, labelling, emotional reasoning, and magnification and minimisation.

Laid out as a concise psychoeducation handout, it is likely to be useful for adults, older teenagers, counsellors, psychologists and CBT practitioners supporting people with social anxiety, anxiety or depression. It can be printed for therapy sessions, used as a prompt for journalling or thought records, or shared with clients who are learning to spot automatic negative thoughts and develop more balanced ways of thinking.

Support with identifying and testing core beliefs is the main aim of this CBT information sheet, especially for people who find that balanced thoughts do not always feel believable in social situations. It explains how rigid beliefs such as “I’m unlovable” can become activated around friends, flatmates or other interpersonal situations, and how selective attention to negative or neutral feedback can keep these beliefs feeling true.

The sheet is likely to be useful for adults with social anxiety, CBT clients, counsellors, psychologists and mental health practitioners who want a clear printable handout on core beliefs, unhelpful thinking patterns and belief change. It covers looking for repeated themes in thought diaries, using prompts such as “What does that say about me?”, listing experiences that disconfirm the belief, creating a more balanced core belief, trying behavioural experiments, and carrying balanced belief cards as reminders. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Use it in therapy sessions, supported self-help or home practice to turn avoided social situations into a graded exposure plan, starting with a list of feared situations and 0 to 100 distress ratings. It is especially suited to adults or older teenagers working on social anxiety, avoidance of pubs or social venues, fear of assertiveness, or anxiety about staying involved in real-life social settings.

The sheet explains graded exposure, goal planning using the PRAMS criteria, and how to build a step ladder by changing who is present, what the person does, when and where it happens, and how long it lasts. It includes a worked example for going to a pub, guidance on coping skills, staying in the situation, avoiding safety behaviours such as mentally escaping with alcohol or drugs, managing stepbacks, and using a diary to record expected distress, actual distress and outcomes.

A quick one-page handout makes it easier to spot when coping strategies are actually maintaining anxiety rather than reducing it in the long term. Anxiety-Information-Sheet—07-What-are-Safety-Behaviours explains what safety behaviours are, why people use them, and how the purpose behind a behaviour matters more than the behaviour itself, using examples such as staying quiet in social situations, avoiding touching things in public, carrying a water bottle everywhere, and wearing headphones on public transport.

The sheet is likely to be useful for adults and older teenagers working on anxiety, panic, social anxiety, health anxiety, phobias or avoidance in CBT sessions, counselling, therapy homework or self-help. It can support conversations about exposure practice, testing fears, self-focused attention, self-fulfilling prophecies and the question, “How anxious would I feel if I could not do this?” Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Keeping recovery on track after social anxiety treatment can feel harder once regular sessions reduce or end, and this one-page PDF gives clear prompts for doing that in everyday life. It covers balanced routines, healthy sleep, eating and exercise habits, social activities, trusted support people, professional help, and how to respond to slip-ups or low days without assuming all progress has been lost.

The sheet includes a practical reflection space with labelled areas for thinking, pleasant activities, exercise, relaxation, professional support, social support and social activities. It is likely to be most useful for adults or older teenagers working on social anxiety, clients finishing CBT or psychotherapy, and practitioners looking for a simple printable handout for relapse prevention, wellbeing planning or after-care sessions.

A quick printable handout helps people understand safer ways to use artificial intelligence for mental health learning, planning and self-help without treating it as therapy, diagnosis or crisis support. It explains what AI is, how tools such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot work in broad terms, and why AI can sound human while still being unable to think, feel or provide genuine care.

Sections cover helpful uses such as practical problem solving, breaking tasks into smaller steps, exposure planning, routines, journalling prompts and simplifying therapy notes or self-help material. It also flags common risks, including hallucinations, inaccurate answers, bias, reassurance seeking, over-reliance, privacy concerns and using AI for emotional validation. It is likely to suit adults, young people, therapy clients, counsellors, psychologists, GPs, support workers and educators who want a clear AI mental health handout to discuss in sessions, groups, clinics or at home. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

When someone needs to sort anxious experiences into clearer categories, Social Anxiety Worksheet – 01 – Anxiety Symptom Record offers a straightforward anxiety symptoms worksheet with three columns: somatic or physiological symptoms, cognitive or affective symptoms, and behavioural symptoms. The page gives examples such as shortness of breath, chest tightness, lightheadedness, fear of having a heart attack, feeling frightened, not going out, avoiding people or objects, and only going out with trusted people.

The worksheet can be printed and used as an anxiety symptom tracker, CBT anxiety worksheet or therapy handout for adults and older teenagers who are identifying patterns linked with social anxiety, panic attacks, fear responses or avoidance. Counsellors, psychologists, mental health practitioners and support workers could use it during sessions, while individuals can complete it at home to prepare for appointments or to understand how anxiety shows up in their body, thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

Use it during home practice, CBT sessions, anxiety treatment, or wellbeing work to record breathing rate before and after a short breathing exercise at 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m. The sheet includes space for dates and breathing-rate entries, plus practical reminders to count breaths while sitting or standing quietly and to wait after physical activity before measuring.

Particularly suited to adults, older teenagers, therapy clients, and practitioners working with social anxiety, panic symptoms, stress management, hyperventilation, or relaxation training, it sets out a simple breathing exercise using one hand on the stomach and one on the chest. A calming technique is also included, with a 4-second inhale, 2-second pause, and 6-second exhale, alongside prompts to breathe low and slow with a relaxed jaw. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

The relaxation diary table gives space to record the date and time, comments or reactions, and a relaxation level before and after each practice using a 0 to 10 scale. Prompts on the page encourage reflection on which parts of the body relaxed easily, what physical sensations were noticed, whether the mind felt relaxed, and which images felt most calming.

People practising relaxation for social anxiety, stress, worry or general anxiety could use it at home between sessions, while CBT therapists, counsellors and mental health practitioners may find it useful as a simple client handout. The layout works well as a printable anxiety log, relaxation tracker or tension diary for older teenagers and adults learning to build relaxation as a regular skill.

Planning the week in visible time blocks can make it easier to balance exposure practice, daily responsibilities, rest and pleasurable activities. The PDF contains several versions of a weekly activity schedule, including hourly and two-hourly timetable layouts, weekday columns from Monday to Sunday, a week beginning line, and a prompt to plan activities for the coming week while balancing fun with duties.

The worksheet is likely to suit adults or older teenagers using CBT for social anxiety, as well as psychologists, counsellors, wellbeing practitioners and support workers looking for a printable weekly planner, activity scheduling template or therapy homework sheet. It can be used in sessions to plan manageable routines, at home to track commitments and enjoyable activities, or alongside social anxiety treatment goals where clients are gradually rebuilding structure, confidence and participation.

Keeping track of CBT homework for social anxiety can be difficult when there are several small tasks to practise during the week. Social Anxiety Worksheet 05 Weekly Goals Record is a printable therapy homework tracker with columns for each day, dates, frequency, completion, and impact ratings, helping clients monitor reading, calming techniques, thought diaries, pleasant activities, exposure exercises and other behavioural goals.

The layout is most suited to adults or older teenagers working through social anxiety treatment with a psychologist, CBT therapist, counsellor or mental health practitioner. It can be used in sessions to agree weekly goals, at home as a daily anxiety practice checklist, and in follow-up appointments to review what was completed and which tasks felt useful. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Adults, older teenagers and therapy clients working on social anxiety, anxiety management or CBT skills are the most likely users of this printable worksheet. It uses relatable situations, such as coming home to muddy footprints, receiving a surprise birthday party, being let down by a flatmate, and a partner cancelling dinner, to practise noticing how self-statements and inner dialogue can lead to different emotional responses.

The activity is split into two parts: first, readers identify possible feelings that may follow from given thoughts, then they write their own self-statements to match feelings such as anger, hurt, disappointment and concern. Counsellors, CBT therapists, psychologists and mental health practitioners could use it in sessions, groups or as homework to support cognitive restructuring, thought monitoring, emotional awareness and the thought-feeling connection.

In a CBT session, this social anxiety thought diary can help a client slow down a difficult moment and record what happened, what went through their mind, and how they felt afterwards. The page is divided into three clear sections: Activating Event, Beliefs, and Consequences, with prompts to identify the situation or trigger, list self-statements, mark the most distressing hot thought, and rate belief in that thought from 0 to 100.

Practitioners, mental health professionals, support workers and adults or teenagers using CBT for social anxiety may find it useful as a printable thought record, anxiety worksheet, ABC diary, or cognitive restructuring tool. The Consequences section asks the person to name feelings, rate emotional intensity, and note physical sensations or actions, which can support later discussion about patterns, safety behaviours, avoidance, and alternative thinking. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

When someone is trying to make sense of a difficult social anxiety moment, this thought diary gives them a clear CBT structure for slowing things down and separating the event from the beliefs and consequences. It uses the A-B-C model, with space for the activating event, self-statements and hot thoughts, belief ratings, feelings, physical sensations, actions, and common unhelpful thinking styles such as catastrophising, mind reading, black and white thinking, personalisation, shoulding and emotional reasoning.

The second page focuses on detective work and disputation, asking the person to write factual evidence for and against the hot thought before considering more balanced ways of viewing the situation. It is likely to be most useful for adults, older teens, counsellors, CBT therapists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, and support workers using social anxiety worksheets, cognitive restructuring exercises, thought records, anxiety diaries, or therapy homework. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Cognitive restructuring sits at the centre of this printable social anxiety worksheet, using an ABCDE thought diary format to link an activating event with beliefs, emotional consequences, detective work and a more balanced end result. It includes space to record the situation or trigger, list self-statements, identify the most distressing hot thought, rate belief from 0 to 100, note emotions and physical sensations, and recognise unhelpful thinking styles such as catastrophising, mind reading, black and white thinking, personalisation, shoulding and emotional reasoning.

People working on social anxiety, shyness, fear of judgement, avoidance, anxious thoughts or low confidence in social situations may find it useful for therapy sessions, counselling homework, wellbeing work or private reflection at home. CBT practitioners, mental health professionals and support workers can use it to help adults or older teenagers slow down anxious thinking, weigh factual evidence for and against a hot thought, answer disputation questions and re-rate both the emotion and belief after forming a more helpful balanced thought. The named organisation on the pages is the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

When a social situation leaves someone feeling anxious, ashamed, upset, or distressed, this printable CBT thought diary helps them slow down and write out what happened, what they felt, and what thoughts were running through their mind. The layout uses the ABC model with sections for the activating event, beliefs, and consequences, then extends into disputation and evaluation, including prompts for identifying a hot thought, rating belief strength, rating emotion intensity, noting physical sensations or actions, and replacing an unhelpful thought with a more balanced thought.

Practitioners, counsellors, CBT therapists, mental health workers, and people using anxiety self-help materials could use it as a thought record worksheet for social anxiety, worry, panic, low mood, negative automatic thoughts, or difficult interpersonal situations. It includes practical prompts for evidence for and against a hot thought, alternative ways of viewing the situation, advice you might give to someone you care about, and common unhelpful thinking styles such as catastrophising, mind reading, personalisation, all-or-nothing thinking, shoulding and musting, labelling, overgeneralisation, and ignoring positives. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

It helps turn a broad negative belief into specific evidence, predictions and real-life outcomes, making it useful for CBT work on social anxiety, low self-esteem, shame, avoidance and fear of criticism. The worksheet includes space to write a core belief to be challenged, list up to ten experiences showing the belief is not completely true all the time, and create a more balanced core belief.

A second section supports a behavioural experiment style exercise, with columns for the task, prediction and what actually happened, followed by a conclusion and another balanced core belief prompt. Mental health professionals, CBT practitioners and clients can use it in sessions or as therapy homework when working on cognitive restructuring, belief testing and social anxiety recovery. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Planning a social anxiety exposure task can feel too broad when the goal is simply written as one big challenge, such as speaking up, entering a busy place, or doing something while others are present. The worksheet provides a structured CBT exposure hierarchy template with space to write the overall goal, estimate distress, and break the task into smaller situational exposure steps, each with its own distress rating.

The page prompts users to vary who is there, what they do, when and where they do it, and how long the exposure lasts, making it practical for creating a fear ladder or graded exposure plan. It is most suited to adults or older teenagers working on social anxiety in therapy, counselling, CBT sessions, or guided self-help, and can also be used by psychologists, therapists, mental health practitioners, and support workers when planning between-session exposure practice. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Planning an exposure task becomes easier when the feared outcome, test, evidence and learning are written down before and after the situation. The worksheet includes a Behavioural Experiment Monitoring table with columns for prediction, experiment, evidence to look for, actual outcome and what has been learned, plus 0 to 100 ratings for predicted distress and actual distress.

Designed for social anxiety CBT work, it is likely to suit adults and older teenagers using exposure exercises, anxiety hierarchies or prediction testing with a therapist, counsellor, psychologist or mental health practitioner. It can be printed for therapy sessions, homework between appointments, or guided self-help, particularly when someone is working on reducing safety behaviours, avoiding distraction and checking whether anxious predictions actually come true. The page is from the Centre for Clinical Interventions.

Adults and older teenagers working on social anxiety, especially with a CBT therapist, counsellor or mental health practitioner, can use this Healthy Me worksheet to create a personal wellbeing plan. The page is arranged around a central “Healthy ME” prompt with blank boxes for key areas: Thinking, Social Activities, Pleasant Activities, Exercise, Relaxation, Self-Care, Social Support and Goals.

The layout works well as a printable social anxiety worksheet, recovery planning tool, self-care planner or CBT homework sheet. It can be filled in during a therapy session, used as a reflection exercise between appointments, or kept at home as a visual reminder of practical steps that support confidence, routine, connection and emotional wellbeing.

Goal setting is the main focus of this one-page social anxiety worksheet, with space to look back over the last 3 to 6 months before planning what comes next. It asks the person to write down what they have achieved or done well, identify areas for improvement, add the date, and set specific, realistic goals that can be worked on within the next 3 to 6 months.

The layout is simple enough to use in CBT sessions, counselling, mental health appointments, support work, school or university wellbeing support, or as a printable self-help goal planning sheet at home. It may be particularly useful for adults and older teenagers managing social anxiety who need a clear prompt for reflecting on progress, building confidence, and turning broad intentions into achievable personal goals. Produced by the Centre for Clinical Interventions.