Relationship Coaching
Coping with Family Drama During the Holidays

This worksheet is designed to give people a wide range of strategies to deal with family problems that typically occur during the holidays. Strategies include setting realistic expectations, self-care, identifying triggers, choosing to accept family members as they are, taking “stress breaks,” and more. (1122, family therapy, holidays, stress management, interpersonal conflict, interpersonal effectiveness)

Recovering from Betrayal

This worksheet is designed to help people understand and get past the pain of betrayal in a relationship. Betrayal can come from infidelity, but also from breaking promises, lying, disclosing private and personal information, and more.  The worksheet explains 15 steps to get past the betrayal, from deciding whether or not to stay in the relationship to practicing forgiveness. (1122, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, marriage counseling, family therapy)

Are You Experiencing Gaslighting in Your Relationship?

This worksheet helps people understand the concept of “gaslighting,” a process where someone deliberately and systematically gives someone false information leading them to question themselves and what is true. It explains the seven stages of gaslighting, from lies and exaggeration to domination and control.  The worksheet also gives people a chart to record incidents of gaslighting and to think about how the situations and the outcomes can change. (1022, marital and family therapy, relationships, interpersonal effectiveness)

Mindfulness – Daily Assessment of Relationships

This worksheet asks people to think about the good and problematic conversations that occurred and what they learned from thinking about their different relationships. (0922, relationships, communication)

Practicing Self-Kindness

This worksheet encourages people to increase their kindness to themselves.  It gives 14 suggestions on how to increase self-compassion. (0822, self-care, self-compassion)

Dealing with a Manipulative Family Member

This worksheet is intended to help people explore what it means to be manipulated by someone else and how to respond appropriately to manipulation. (0822, family therapy, relationships, control)

Learning to Trust Others

This worksheet is designed to help people who have a difficult time trusting others. It begins with a list of statements about trust.  People who check more than five statements may have trouble trusting others.  The worksheet then suggests several activities to help people explore the issue of trust, including writing a letter to someone they distrust (it doesn’t have to be sent) and taking a “trust walk,” where each person takes a turn being blindfolded and led by the other. (0822, relationships, trust, family therapy)

Do You Intimidate Others?

This worksheet is designed for people who may not be aware that they are intimidating to others. The worksheet defines behavior that makes up intimidation and the negative consequences intimidation has on others.  The worksheet then gives 8 steps to help people reduce non-intentional intimidation. (0722, social skills, bully, workplace, relationships)

Handling Disagreements in a Healthy Way

This worksheet suggests how to have “healthy” disagreements, which can actually strengthen relationships.  The worksheet gives specific strategies on how people can take a more productive approach to disagreements.  It then gives questions to help people analyze what they did right or wrong in a recent argument. (0722, communication, relationships, arguing, anger)

Coping with Feeling Left Out

This worksheet was designed for people who feel left out or excluded by their friends. It contains suggestions on how to deal with this problem ranging from finding new interests to more direct communication.  Questions help people understand why social rejection may be occurring and a chart is included to help people expand their social circle. (0622, friendship, ASD, Autism, social skills)