Self Help Worksheets
There are a number of free and low cost, self help worksheets available. These can be downloaded for free or purchased as PDF documents or a hard copy can be sent to you through the post. Please specify which you would prefer when purchasing. We hope to be able to produce all the worksheets in the form of a book so keep your eyes peeled for more information.
All of the free worksheets are protected by a creative commons license, so they are free to download and distribute non commercially. Please do not remove the footers which credit the original source.
Useful Contacts (UK)
Information and contact details of useful mental health services and helplines, including ones available over the holiday period.
Festive Period 2022 - Useful Contacts (Hertfordshire)
Weekly Schedule
Available free of charge and for use to help when planning in structured activities. You may chosse to use these to help you get through a difficult time or you may decide to make these part of your regular routine.
Monthly Diary Sheets
Six page diary sheets which can be printed and used regardless of the month or year. There is space for adding in appointments, weekly goals and achievements plus a front sheet that includes a monthly to do list and a month overview which can be used to record mood or tick off daily tasks such as taking medication.
Mood Diaries
Available free of charge and for recording your mood at regular intervals throughout the day. They can be a helpful tool for identifying patterns and triggers and can give the user a clear tool for communicating mood over a given period. They can be a helpful aid when seeking professional support with a mood disorder such as depression.
Mood Wall
Visual tool for measuring mood over a longer period of time. Each brick of the wall represents a day in the month and you can chose what colour you would like to represent your mood on a ten point scale.
Food and Mood Diaries
Available free of charge and for using when tracking diet and mood, and how each effects the other.
Spending Diary Sheets
Available free of charge and designed to help track spending over a given period. The information gathered can be used to develop a better understanding of spending patterns.
Thought Records
Available free of charge and a useful tool to help the individual identify and challenge negative and unhelpful thought patterns.
Managing Stress
A worksheet to help you to log the things that are causing you stress, your stress levels, what you are doing to manage your stress and how effective that technique was and lowering your stress levels. There is also a prompt sheet with techniques grouped according to how they work.
Mindfulness Body Scan Colouring Page
Free colouring page to assist with a mindfulness body scan. The idea is that the individual works through their own body, focusing on one area at a time, considering how that part feels, whether it is tense, relaxed, comfortable, in pain, warm, cold, and so on. They then colour the corresponding area of the body diagram with a colour that helps represent that feeling. For instance, they may choose a blue colour for coldness and red for heat or pain. Another colour, such as green, colour represent a relaxed or comfortable state.
Work in Progress
This worksheet is for individuals to use as a prompt to remind themselves of the positive work they are doing to improve their situation, and opportunity to reflex and develop insight and think about the progress they have made.
Healthy Habits Log
Available free of charge and can be used to help record and prompt healthy behaviours. The idea is that they will give the individual an idea of their behaviour, routines and help them to recognise any unhealthy patterns of behaviour and act as prompts to healthier behaviour.
Healthy Habit Log - Daily Log Sheets
If you are someone who likes to record a bit more information here's the Healthy Habits Log in daily form.
Healthy Habits Tick & Stick Sheet
Free of charge worksheet designed to motivate and support the individual in the development of new healthy routines.
24 Hour Clock
Worksheet to help track your activity over a 24-hour period
Project Planning Worksheet
Free of charge worksheet to help with planning larger projects that might take time to complete.
Goal Setting Worksheets
Free of charge worksheets to help the individual plan, set and achieve their goals.
Action Planning Worksheet
Free of charge worksheet to help with action planning. The worksheet provides space for actions, any steps to completing the action, who will complete these and the time and which this needs to be done by.
Understanding Your Own Mental Health
A good accompaniment to the Personal Wellbeing Plan, this worksheet aims to assist the individual in developing their self awareness and understanding of what it means for them to be well and unwell. The worksheet has prompts for varous characteristics that make up a persons wellbeing and give space to explore how each of these characteristics are affected by a period of unwellness.
How to Create an Emotional First Aid Kit
Simple, easy to follow instructions for creating your own emotional first aid kit.
Wall of Resilience
Worksheet designed to help you to think about what activities do you have in your life or would like to build into your life to help you maintain your wellbeing and manage stress.
Shopping List
Simple, easy to use shopping list which the individual can print out and use as a checklist to identify items needed (and cross of anything not needed) and the as a tick list while out shopping.
Meal Planner
Simple, easy to use meal planning worksheet aimed to help the individual plan out their meals for the coming week with space for listing components/ingredients needed and any shopping that needs to be done for that weeks meals.
A Beginners Guide to Facebook
A printable version of the blog posts of the same name.
Mental Health First Aid Kit Colouring Page
Free colouring page to download, print and colour.
If you've found the worksheets helpful and would like to make a donation this would be very much appreciated. All donations will go towards the cost of creating more worksheets and the production of a book containing all of the worksheets and more.
