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Emotional regulation worksheets and activities
Printable tools that help people name feelings, notice early signs and plan what helps, for adults, teens and children.
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For Counsellors and therapists
Feelings Identification Worksheet
A gentle worksheet that helps people notice, name and rate their feelings, with a word bank and prompts about where feelings show up in…
Emotional regulation · Psychoeducation
For Counsellors and therapists
Coping Skills Planner
A structured planner for identifying warning signs, helpful coping strategies and supports, organised by how much time and energy someone has.
Coping strategies · Emotional regulation
For Educators and school support staff
Individual Calm Plan
A student-led plan for staying calm at school, covering early signs, triggers, what helps, a calm space, who to go to and how adults…
Calm plans · Classroom regulation
For Disability support workers
Feelings Thermometer
A visual five-level feelings thermometer from calm to very upset, with space to record what each level looks like for the person and what…
Co-regulation · Emotional regulation
For Youth workers
Emotion Vocabulary for Teens
A word bank of emotions grouped by family and intensity, with prompts for young people to name what they feel and notice what it…
Emotional literacy · Emotional regulation
For Youth workers
Anger: Taking Charge
A young-person-friendly worksheet about anger: noticing body signs, knowing triggers, choosing quick cool-down moves and planning what to do after, without shame.
Anger · Emotional regulation
For adults and teens
For deeper work in counselling and support.
For Psychologists
Emotional Regulation Toolkit
A three-part workbook covering the emotion wave, noticing early signs and building a personal regulation toolkit.
Coping strategies · DBT-informed skills
For Psychologists
Emotion Diary Card
A one-week landscape diary card for tracking daily emotions and intensity, triggers, skills used and how helpful they were, for review in psychology sessions.
Emotional literacy · Emotional regulation
For Psychologists
Distress Tolerance Skills Menu
A menu of skills for getting through moments of intense distress without making things worse, grouped into body, attention, soothing and perspective skills, with…
DBT-informed skills · Distress tolerance
For Psychologists
Staying in My Window
A trauma-informed worksheet for noticing signs of being too activated, too shut down or in a manageable zone, with personal strategies to return to…
Arousal and regulation · Emotional regulation
For Psychologists
Behaviour Chain Analysis
A structured worksheet for understanding the chain of events, thoughts, feelings and actions leading to a problem behaviour, its consequences and points where a…
Chain analysis · DBT-informed skills
For Counsellors and therapists
What Is Under the Anger? Reflection
A reflection for clients exploring the feelings, needs and situations that can sit underneath anger, with a feelings word bank and space to plan…
Anger · Emotional regulation
For children
Colourful activities for younger children, to use with an adult.
For Counsellors and therapists
My Feelings Garden
A bright garden activity: children colour a flower for each feeling, with bigger feelings getting more colour.
Creative activities · Emotional literacy
For Counsellors and therapists
My Feelings Volcano
A big volcano to explore how anger builds, from little rumbles to erupting, with cool-down ideas to try together.
Emotional literacy · Emotional regulation
For Counsellors and therapists
Body Clues Detective
Children become detectives and colour where they feel different feelings in their body.
Arousal and regulation · Emotional literacy
For Counsellors and therapists
Animal Breathing Cards
Six colourful cut-out cards that teach calming breaths through animals, including one the child invents.
Coping strategies · Emotional regulation
For Counsellors and therapists
Feelings Path Board Game
A bright board game with 24 squares of questions, faces and movement, to play with a therapist and get children talking.
Emotional literacy · Play-based therapy
For Educators and school support staff
Naming Feelings Lesson
A ready-to-adapt lesson for naming feelings, with a learning intention, feelings vocabulary, a feelings charades activity, body clues and a reflection.
Emotional literacy · Social-emotional learning
Getting the most from these tools
- Practise skills when the person is calm, so that they are easier to use when things are hard.
- Use the person's own words for feelings.
- Choose a format that suits them: visual, written or spoken.
- Involve the people who support them, if the person wants this.
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