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A growing collection of evidence-informed therapy resources, with new additions every month. Everything here is yours to use in session, between appointments, or as psychoeducation material for your clients. Browse by category below, or scroll to "Added this month" to see what is new.

Added this month

Five new resources added each month. The most recent five appear here. If you want to know the moment new resources drop, the email list is the place.

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

A foundational psychoeducation handout introducing PMDD, including how it differs from PMS, key symptoms, and how it presents across the menstrual cycle. A good starting point for clients exploring whether PMDD might explain their experience, or for clinicians who want a clean handout to share in early sessions.

The Menstrual Cycle

A psychoeducation handout walking through the phases of the menstrual cycle and the hormonal shifts that influence mood, energy, and behaviour. Useful for clients with PMDD, PMS, or any presentation where cyclical patterns are part of the clinical picture.

What Is Gender Dysphoria

A psychoeducation handout introducing gender dysphoria, how it can present, and how it intersects with mental health. A good entry-point resource for clients exploring their gender identity, and for clinicians who want accessible material to share.

Why Is Autism Different in Women & Girls

A psychoeducation handout exploring how autism often presents differently in women and girls, including masking, internalising patterns, and the reasons it is frequently missed earlier in life. Useful for clients exploring a late autism diagnosis, and for clinicians working with female-presenting clients.

Age-Specific Conversation Prompts

A one-page reference sheet with developmentally appropriate conversation prompts for children aged 5-7, 8-10, and 11-12. Useful as a session aid during early sessions, intake, or when building rapport with children who find direct questioning difficult.

 

Anxiety, Mood & Stress

Psychoeducation, behavioural tools, and worksheets for working with anxiety, low mood, burnout, grief, and the everyday stress patterns that compound into clinical presentations.

Agoraphobia Symptoms Handout

A psychoeducation handout covering emotional, physical, and behavioural symptoms of agoraphobia, written in plain language clients can recognise in their own experience. Useful in early sessions for validation and to start the formulation conversation.

Breaking the Agoraphobia Cycle Worksheet

A worksheet for working through the avoidance cycle in agoraphobia, with practical strategies including graded exposure and safety behaviour reduction. Supports rebuilding confidence step by step.

Checking and Reassuring Seeking

A handout and reflection activity for clients with health anxiety where checking and reassurance behaviours have become entrenched. Good for psychoeducation around how these behaviours maintain anxiety, and how to start reducing them.

Dealing with Health Information

A simple checklist for clients who get caught in cycles of searching health information online or seeking medical reassurance. Useful as a between-session tool to interrupt the pattern.

Managing Grief During the Holidays

A handout designed to support grieving individuals through the holiday period, with strategies for navigating expectations, anniversaries, and triggering moments. A good seasonal resource for clients facing their first holiday after loss.

What Is Burnout?

A handout covering psychoeducation on burnout versus stress, early warning signs, and a guided reflection to build awareness of changes in energy, mood, and behaviour. Useful for clients in helping professions and high-demand roles.

7 Day Digital Detox

A structured 7-day plan helping clients identify and shift unhelpful behaviours around media and screen use. Suits clients whose screen use is feeding low mood, sleep problems, or attentional difficulties.

 

Trauma, Emotional Regulation & Mindfulness

Psychoeducation, somatic awareness, post-traumatic growth, and DBT-informed tools for working with trauma presentations and supporting clients in regulating intense emotions.

Circle of Control

A handout with psychoeducation around the circle of control, influence, and concern. Helpful for clients caught in anxious overthinking or feeling overwhelmed by what is outside their control.

Mindfulness Activities

A bundle of mindfulness activities with psychoeducation and hands-on exercises. Can be used in session or sent home as practice. Suits clients new to mindfulness, or those who find guided practice difficult.

Radical Acceptance

A DBT-based worksheet introducing radical acceptance, with reflective exercises clients can work through between sessions. Useful for clients stuck in resistance or rumination.

Self-Compassion After Trauma

A handout on self-compassion as a clinical tool in trauma work, covering common barriers and practical strategies for responding to oneself with kindness rather than self-criticism. Pairs well with stabilisation-phase work.

The 8 Phases of EMDR

A visual psychoeducation handout walking through the eight phases of EMDR. Useful for orienting clients before treatment, and for clinicians who want a clean visual to share with referrers or clients.

Urge Surfing

A worksheet on urge surfing for emotional regulation and sitting with discomfort. Suitable for substance use, self-harm urges, emotional eating, and any presentation involving impulse-driven behaviour.

What Is Post-Traumatic Growth?

A handout on the five domains of post-traumatic growth, with a guided reflection for exploring personal shifts following adversity. Best used in the later stages of trauma work, not in early stabilisation.

Window of Tolerance

A handout with psychoeducation, an interactive "my different states" activity, and steps for widening the window over time. One of the most used resources in the library for trauma, anxiety, and nervous system work.

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Neurodivergence, Identity & Wellbeing

Psychoeducation and tools for working with neurodivergent presentations, identity, hormones, and the body-mind patterns that often shape mental health. Covers ADHD, autism, gender dysphoria, menstrual cycle and PMDD, perinatal transitions, sleep, and digital wellbeing.

Autistic Burnout

A handout introducing autistic burnout, how it presents, how it differs from clinical burnout, and what early signs to watch for. Good entry-point psychoeducation for autistic clients and the people supporting them.

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

A foundational psychoeducation handout introducing PMDD, including how it differs from PMS, key symptoms, and how it presents across the menstrual cycle. A good starting point for clients exploring whether PMDD might explain their experience, or for clinicians who want a clean handout to share in early sessions.

The ADHD Brain

A visual psychoeducation poster explaining how the ADHD brain works. Helpful for clients who are recently diagnosed, or who want a clear way to explain ADHD to family, partners, or workplaces.

The ADHD Iceberg

A visual handout illustrating the visible and hidden experiences of ADHD. Useful in early sessions for validation and for shifting the conversation from behaviour to underlying experience.

The Menstrual Cycle

A psychoeducation handout walking through the phases of the menstrual cycle and the hormonal shifts that influence mood, energy, and behaviour. Useful for clients with PMDD, PMS, or any presentation where cyclical patterns are part of the clinical picture.

The Spectrum vs Wheel in Autism Education

A handout explaining the difference between the traditional linear "spectrum" model and the "wheel" model, which better reflects the varied and individualised traits, strengths, and challenges of autistic people. Good for clinicians wanting more modern autism psychoeducation.

What Is Gender Dysphoria

A psychoeducation handout introducing gender dysphoria, how it can present, and how it intersects with mental health. A good entry-point resource for clients exploring their gender identity, and for clinicians who want accessible material to share.

Why Is Autism Different in Women & Girls

A psychoeducation handout exploring how autism often presents differently in women and girls, including masking, internalising patterns, and the reasons it is frequently missed earlier in life. Useful for clients exploring a late autism diagnosis, and for clinicians working with female-presenting clients.

Self-Compassion During Matrescence Worksheet

A worksheet on self-compassion in early motherhood, including reflective prompts and practical ways to respond to yourself with greater care. Useful for perinatal and matrescence work where self-criticism is dominant.

Sleep Hygiene

A handout bundle covering sleep, insomnia, the insomnia cycle, and sleep consolidation strategies. Suits clients where sleep is a significant contributor to mood or anxiety symptoms.

The Gut Brain Connection

A handout on the two-way communication between the digestive system and the brain, and how stress, diet, and emotion influence one another. Useful for clients with co-occurring gut and mental health presentations.

Understanding Digital Overuse

A handout on patterns of excessive technology use, the impact on the nervous system, and common signs of digital overload. A good entry point for clients who are open to looking at the role of screens in their wellbeing.

 

Relationships, Couples & Family Dynamics

Handouts and worksheets for relationship dynamics, including boundaries, unhealthy patterns, codependency, and money conversations for couples.

Boundaries

A handout bundle covering boundary styles, dos and don'ts, and practical tips for setting healthy boundaries. Suitable for individual or couples work, and as take-home psychoeducation.

Codependency

A handout with psychoeducation on codependency, what maintains it, and practical strategies for shifting the pattern. Useful for clients caught in self-sacrificing relationship dynamics.

Gaslighting

A handout covering common forms of gaslighting, how to recognise it, and practical strategies to respond and set boundaries. Designed for clients leaving or processing emotionally manipulative relationships.

Leaving an Unhealthy Relationship

A handout covering psychoeducation, key considerations when ending a relationship, and practical steps for safety planning and boundary setting. Best used alongside ongoing therapeutic support.

Narcissism

A handout on understanding and responding to narcissistic patterns in relationships, including identification, common dynamics, and self-protective strategies. Useful for psychoeducation and post-relationship recovery work.

Money Conversation Rules for Couples

A practical worksheet for couples to start healthier financial conversations. Designed to lower the emotional stakes of a topic that is frequently avoided in relationships.

 

Clinician Tools, Assessment & Formulation

Practical resources for use by clinicians directly: formulation templates, assessment tools, decision-making frameworks, and conversation aids for session work.

Age-Specific Conversation Prompts

A one-page reference sheet with developmentally appropriate conversation prompts for children aged 5-7, 8-10, and 11-12. Useful as a session aid during early sessions, intake, or when building rapport with children who find direct questioning difficult.

Case Formulation (The 5 P Formulation)

A fillable case formulation worksheet using the 5 P framework. A clean, reusable tool for working through new presentations in clinical practice or supervision.

Genogram Template

A genogram template with standard family mapping symbols, relationship indicators, and space to explore family structure, patterns, and emotional dynamics across generations.

Mental Status Exam

A fillable Mental Status Exam form designed for use in therapy sessions and assessment write-ups. Saves time when documenting MSE findings consistently.

Motivational Interviewing - OARS

A cheat sheet on the four core MI skills: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarising. Useful as a quick reference during sessions, supervision, or training.

Pros and Cons Grid

A simple pros and cons decision-making grid for use in session or as a between-session reflection. Useful with clients reconsidering addictive behaviours, weighing up motivation for change, or working through significant decisions.

What Psychosis Can Feel Like Handout

A handout with compassionate psychoeducation on changes in perception, thinking, emotions, and connection, helping build understanding of what these experiences can feel like. Useful for clients and their support networks navigating psychotic experiences.

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A few common questions

Are these resources evidence-informed?

Yes. Every resource in the library is created by a registered psychologist, drawing on evidence-based therapeutic frameworks (CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR, and others) and current clinical practice.

Can I use these directly with clients?

Yes. The resources are designed to be used in session, sent home between appointments, or shared as psychoeducation material. There are no additional licensing requirements for clinical use with your own clients.

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How often is the library updated?

The free library is updated with five new resources each month. The paid library is updated more frequently with new bundles and resource additions across all clinical areas.

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