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Between Sessions:
Tools to support your work

Each card below covers a topic area. Click any one to explore resources, tools, and journal prompts you can use between sessions.

Topic Areas
Coping Skills

Coping Skills

Practical, evidence-based tools for managing distress in the moment and building resilience over time.

  • Breathing & grounding
  • Thought challenging
  • Emotional regulation
  • DBT & ACT skills
Personal Values

Personal Values

Identify what matters most to you and reflect on how well your daily life aligns with those values.

  • Interactive values checklist
  • Identify your top 3 to 5
  • Reflection prompts
  • Values & mental health
ADHD

ADHD

Practical strategies and reflective prompts for attention, regulation, and behavior patterns.

  • Focus & time blindness
  • Emotional regulation
  • Procrastination & routines
  • Self-regulation & social dynamics
Anxiety

Anxiety

Information and tools for recognizing anxiety patterns, managing worry, and building tolerance for uncertainty.

  • How anxiety works in the body
  • Worry & avoidance cycles
  • Grounding & regulation skills
  • Coping strategies
Depression

Depression

Psychoeducation and reflective tools for low mood, withdrawal, and the patterns that keep depression going.

  • How depression affects thinking
  • Behavioral activation
  • Self-compassion & inner critic
  • Building momentum
OCD

OCD

Psychoeducation, journal prompts, and coping strategies for obsessive-compulsive patterns.

  • Intrusive thoughts & rumination
  • Compulsive behaviors
  • Emotional experiences
  • ERP basics & worksheets
Stress & Burnout

Stress & Burnout

Understanding the difference between stress and burnout, what drives each, and how recovery actually works.

  • Stress vs. burnout
  • Identity & overextension
  • Real recovery
  • Reconnecting with meaning
Self-Esteem

Self-Esteem

What shapes self-esteem, what undermines it, and the behavioral practices that build something durable.

  • Contingent self-worth
  • The inner critic
  • Values-based action
  • Self-compassion
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Want to go deeper? The OCD and ADHD sections are drawn from my full workbooks, available on Amazon. These pages offer a preview. The books include complete journal sections, worksheets, and tools.