Identifying Your Barriers to Mental Health Treatment

This worksheet is intended to help people identify issues or concerns that might keep them from seeking help. These could range from the cost to a lack of social support, to busy schedules. People are then asked to consider how they might overcome these barriers. (0424. resistance, wellness)

Recognizing Your Defense Mechanisms

This worksheet is designed to help you introduce the concept of defense mechanisms to your clients. Defense mechanisms can include denial, repression, projection, idealization, compartmentalization, and more. (0424. depression, psychodynamic therapy)

Exploring Negative Past Therapy Experiences

Sometimes clients may be resistant to therapy or counseling because of previous negative experiences in getting help. This worksheet asks clients to think about their concerns, including increased vulnerability, fear of emotional dependence, financial strain, and so on. It presents questions for the clients to help them determine how past experiences might affect their current commitment to growth and change. (0424, growth, progress, trauma)

Building Trust in Therapy

This worksheet can be used with clients who may have trust issues when starting therapy or counseling. It asks people to explore how trust issues are affecting their therapy work, such as limiting disclosure, reluctance to explore past trauma, inconsistency in attendance, and so on. It also offers even ways for clients can build trust and get the most out of their therapy or counseling sessions. (0424, trust, therapeutic alliance, progress)