Self-help library

Resources

Free materials to support you between sessions

A growing collection of worksheets, articles and trusted links I share with clients. Everything here is free to use — take what's helpful and leave the rest.

Anxiety & stress

Practical tools for calming the nervous system and working with anxious thoughts.

Worksheet

Graded Exposure Workbook

A gentle, step-by-step workbook for facing anxiety-provoking situations — includes an exposure ladder, reflection prompts and helpful reminders.

Worksheet

The Hot Cross Bun Model

A CBT worksheet showing how the situation, thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours connect — with a worked example — with a blank model to fill in, plus space in each area for your symptoms and the tools and interventions that help.

Worksheet

7-Column Thought Record

A CBT worksheet for catching, checking and changing unhelpful thoughts — with a worked example, space for your own coping strategies, and a blank record to fill in.

Self-awareness & personal growth

Reflective exercises to help you understand yourself and how you relate to others.

Worksheet

Johari's Window

A classic self-awareness tool for exploring what you know about yourself, what others see, and the blind spots and hidden areas in between.

Worksheet

Understanding the Karpman Drama Triangle

A branded PDF guide to the Victim, Rescuer and Persecutor roles — how the drama triangle works, and practical steps towards the Winner's Triangle.

Worksheet

Unhelpful Thinking Styles

A branded PDF guide to twelve common thinking traps — all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophising, mind reading and more — with a question to challenge each one and a simple thought record.

Worksheet

How to Overcome Overthinking

A practical PDF guide to breaking the cycle of rumination and worry — why we overthink, how to tell it apart from problem solving, and eight strategies including worry time and a three-minute reset.

Worksheet

Mindfulness and the Brain

A branded PDF guide to the neuroscience behind mindfulness — how practice affects the brain's alarm system, focus and overthinking — plus step-by-step mindful activities and a practice planner.

Worksheet

Finding Your Voice: A Guide to Assertiveness

A branded PDF guide to assertive communication — the four communication styles, your assertive rights, eight techniques including "I" statements and the broken record, and a planner for difficult conversations.

Worksheet

Self and Self-Concept

A branded PDF guide to the picture you hold of who you are — what self-image, self-esteem and the ideal self are, how conditions of worth and an inner critic turn that picture into distress, and a six-step exercise to map and update it.

Low mood & self-worth

Gentle reflections and exercises to support you through low periods.

Worksheet

Behavioural Activation: Planning a Week Back

A branded PDF guide to getting moving when you can't — why low mood shrinks your world, how motivation only arrives after action, the four kinds of activity that feed us (purpose, belonging, achievement and pleasure), and a week-planning grid to rebuild them.

Burnout & work wellbeing

Recognising the quieter signs of burnout and rebuilding balance.

Article

Wellness in the workplace: the quieter signs of burnout

A short article on the subtle early warning signs of burnout and what to do about them.

Recommended reading & links

Books, websites and organisations I often point clients to.

External resource

BACP — Finding a therapist

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's public information hub.

External resource

Samaritans (24/7 support)

If you are in crisis or need to talk right now — free, confidential, any time.

A gentle note

These resources are for general self-help and are not a substitute for therapy. If you're struggling, please reach out — or in a crisis, contact your GP, NHS 111, or the Samaritans on 116 123.