Insights: How Emptiness Changes Over Time in BPD
Katherine Hein discusses how emptiness is experienced by people with BPD in comparison to other personality disorders.
Articles
2024 In Review: Our Most Popular Resources
As we progress further into 2025, we're taking a moment to look back over the last year, and say a huge thank you to all our members.
Insights: A New Model Of Suicide With Professor Thomas Forkmann
Professor Thomas Forkmann discusses his new ambivalence model of suicidality and how it differs from existing models of suicide.
Insights
Suicide
Distancing And Decentering – Stepping Back From Your Thoughts
We’re excited to introduce an exercise on Distancing and Decentering, designed to help clients learn essential cognitive behavioral techniques.
CBT
Testing Client Beliefs Using Surveys
We’re pleased to share an exercise called Survey – Testing Your Beliefs.
CBT
Behavioral Experiments
Profile: Everett Worthington on Forgiveness
We sat down with Everett Worthington to discuss his career, and how the REACH forgiveness method works.
Forgiveness
Profile
Insights: Enhancing Treatment Of Eating Disorders With Professor Tracey Wade
A study by Professor T. Wade and team found that giving ED clients an intervention on the wait list may increase the odds they will complete treatment.
Eating Disorders
Insights
Translation Spotlight – French (2024-2025)
Over the past few months, we have published 38 new French translations of our resources!
Cognitive Distortions
Translations
Schema
Insights: How Therapy Can Go Wrong And What Clinicians Can Do To Make It Go Well – Dr Elizabeth Li
Dr Elizabeth Li from UCL and the Anna Freud Centre discusses how psychotherapy can go wrong – and what therapists can do to help it go well.
Insights
Alliance
Process
Insights: Helping Self-Critical Parents Cultivate Self-Compassion And Why It’s Important – Dr James Kirby
We met with Dr J Kirby, co-author of A brief compassion focused therapy intervention can help self-critical parents and their children (2023)
Insights
Compassion
Criticism
Research Spotlight: Eating Disorders
This edition focuses on eating disorders, which are characterized by a persistent disturbance in eating behaviours.
Eating Disorders
Anorexia
Bulimia
Research
Forgiveness: A Way To Cope With Transgression
We’re pleased to share our new information handout on Forgiveness which is designed to support anyone who has faced interpersonal hurt.
Anger
Relationships
Forgiveness
Research Spotlight: Alexithymia
This edition focuses on alexithymia, which is characterized by a difficulty in recognizing and articulating feelings.
Alexithymia
Schema
Emotions
Research
Translation Spotlight - Arabic (2024)
We have released brand new translations of our cognitive distortions series of resources in Arabic.
Translations
Arabic
Unforgiveness - Forgiveness Is Not The Only Option
We’re excited to share our handout, Unforgiveness, exploring what happens when anger, fear, or sadness linger after a transgression.
Forgiveness
Anger
Relationships
Research Spotlight: Start Of Treatment
This edition focuses on key treatment considerations, strategies, and interventions in the early stages of therapy.
CBT
Eating Disorders
Assessment
Research
Schema Domain: Impaired Autonomy And Performance
We look at the impaired autonomy and performance schema domain and the early maladaptive schemas that comprise it.
Schema
Abandonment
Subjugation
Research Spotlight: Anxiety and Depression
This edition focuses on anxiety and depression, and includes studies of treatments and the effect of valued living on the conditions.
Anxiety
Depression
Research
Values
Schema Domain: Excessive Responsibility And Standards
We're looking at the excessive responsibility and standards domain and the early maladaptive schemas that are in involved.
Schema
Punitiveness
Unrelenting Standards
New Values Resources - Valued Domains and Exploring Valued Domains
We are introducing valued domains in an accessible way, helping clients clarify their values in different areas of their lives.
Values
ACT
Meaning
Professional and Client versions of resources are now Fillable PDFs!
We’ve upgraded our exercises and worksheets with fillable elements. These are now available to all members, making it easier than ever to work online!
Update
Schema Domain: Impaired Limits
We're looking at the impaired limits schema domain and the early maladaptive schemas that are involved from our schema series.
Schema
Approval/Admiration Seeking
Entitlement
Translation Spotlight - Hindi (2024)
We have released 23 new Hindi translations from our cognitive distortion series.
Schema Domain: Disconnection And Rejection
We look at the disconnection & rejection schema domain and the early maladaptive schemas that comprise it from our schema series.
Schema
Defectiveness
Pessimism
New Series: Schemas
Introducing the schema series, designed to make schema therapy more accessible and helping you work more effectively with early maladaptive schemas (EMS).
Schema
Free Values Guide: Help Your Clients Identify And Connect To Their Values
Help your clients connect to what matters with our free values guide informed by ACT principles and co-authored by Dr Jenna Lejeune.
ACT
Values
Insights: Dissociation And Panic Symptoms In Adolescence – Dr Emma Černis
Dr Emma Černis discusses her paper about dissociation and panic symptoms in adolescences and the exploration of potential mediators
Dissociation
Panic
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Insights
Research Spotlight: Panic Disorder
This research spotlight focuses on how various cognitions and interpretations can contribute to panic disorder.
Research
Panic
CBT
Insights: Early Maladaptive Schemas and Behavioral Addiction – Claudio Vieira
Claudio Vieira discusses his paper on Early maladaptive schemas and behavioral addition: A systematic literature review (2023)
Insights
Schema
Addiction
30th April 2024 Newletter
Announcing 2 new releases for our Schema series: Dependence/Incompetence and Enmeshment and a research roundup on sub-groups of adolescents.
16th April 2024 Newsletter
We have 2 new Schema resources: Emotional Deprivation and Emotional Inhibition as well as research on PTSD and affective forecasting
Newsletter
Schema
Imagery Rescripting
EMDR
2nd April 2024 Newsletter
We're releasing another two resources from our new Schema series: Defectiveness and Coping Styles And Responses (Schema Therapy).
Newsletter
Schema
Eating Disorders
Social Anxiety
19th March 2024 Newsletter
We have two new resources for our Schema series: Abandonment and Approval-/Admiration-Seeking with examples and client-friendly explanations
Newsletter
Schema
Grief
Stigma
5th March 2024 Newsletter
We're releasing two resources summarising key concepts from both schema therapy and CBT, outlining how the past can affect the present.
Newsletter
Schema
CBT
Assessment
20th February 2024 Newsletter
This week we're bringing you our latest Insights article exploring a novel approach to difficult-to-treat depression with Dr Stephen Barton.
Newsletter
Depression
Stigma
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Insights: Difficult-To-Treat Depression – Dr Stephen Barton
Dr Stephen Barton discusses his self-regulation model for difficult-to-treat depression including take aways for the field and clinicians.
Insights
Depression
Complexity
23rd January 2024 Newsletter
Announcing the first two resources from our upcoming Schema series: What Are Schemas? and Unmet Emotional Needs.
Newsletter
Schema
Alexithymia
BPD
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Happy New Year from Psychology Tools (2nd January 2024)!
Happy New Year! At the beginning of 2024, we look back on some of the most popular resources we released in 2023.
12th December 2023 Newsletter
We highlight our updated Client/Professional formats, and release an exercise designed to familiarize clients with cognitive restructuring.
Newsletter
Update
Cognitive Distortions
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Eating Disorders
28th November 2023 Newsletter
In the latest installment of our Insights series, we sit down with Dr Rachel Menzies to talk about death anxiety and mental health.
Cognitive Distortions
Newsletter
Death Anxiety
Dissociation
ACT
Psychosis
Insights: Death Anxiety And Mental Health – Dr Rachel Menzies
Dr Rachel Menzies discusses current thinking on death anxiety and what that might mean for the field and for practicing clinicians.
Insights
Anxiety
14th November 2023 Newsletter
We're releasing an updated Responsibility Pie Chart exercise, which helps clients reassess their level of responsibility for negative events.
Newsletter
Responsibility
Transdiagnostic
Unified Protocol
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Dr David H. Barlow And The Unified Protocol
To celebrate the addition of the Unified Protocol to our library, Psychology Tools were fortunate enough to sit down with Dr David H. Barlow.
CBT
Transdiagnostic
Anxiety
Depression
Treatments That Work™ and Psychology Tools: Our Library Just Got Much Bigger
With the addition of Treatments That Work® titles, we are thrilled to further expand our library of best-in-class resources.
Update
Transdiagnostic
Anxiety
Depression
Free Hebrew and Arabic Translations Of Trauma And PTSD Psychoeducational Resources
We've made a selection of Hebrew, Arabic, and English trauma psychoeducation resources freely available for everyone to download and use.
Translations
10th October 2023 Newsletter
We're wrapping up our Cognitive Distortions series with two handouts highlighting some of the most clinically relevant cognitive biases.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Problem Solving
Boundaries
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26th September 2023 Newsletter
This edition sees the release of three new cognitive distortion resources: Social Comparison, Thought-Action Fusion, and Externalizing.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Nightmares
Alliance
19th September 2023 Newsletter
We're delighted to announce Psychology Tools Insights, a new series of articles exploring thought-provoking new research.
Newsletter
Transference
Urges
Self-Monitoring
Compassion
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Insights: When Clients Develop Romantic Feelings For Therapists – Ana Rabasco
We spoke with Ana Rabasco, Postdoctoral Fellow and author of ‘Well. That Was Awkward: When Clients Develop Romantic Feelings For Therapists’.
Insights
Process
Transference
12th September 2023 Newsletter
This edition sees the release of two new cognitive distortion resources: Overgeneralization and "Should" Statements.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Silence
29th August 2023 Newsletter
We're adding new resources to our 'Exposures for....' series, which covers a range of suggested exercises for commonly experienced fears.
Newsletter
Exposure
OCD
Learn About Fears and Phobias
Learn more about fears and phobias, including causes, maintenance factors, and effective psychological treatments.
Anxiety
Phobia
Learn About
Self Help
Learn About Death Anxiety
Learn more about death anxiety (or ‘thanatophobia’), including causes, maintenance factors, and psychological treatments.
Anxiety
Learn About
Self Help
15th August 2023 Newsletter
This edition sees the release of two more resources from our cognitive distortions series: Personalizing and Self-Blame.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Depression
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8th August 2023 Newsletter
New resources for working with death anxiety (DA) or 'thanatophobia': Understanding DA, What Keeps DA Going?, and Am I experiencing DA?
Newsletter
Death Anxiety
Hopelessness
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1st August 2023 Newsletter
This edition sees the release of two new cognitive distortion resources: Magnification and Minimization and Mind Reading.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Case Conceptualization
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25th July 2023 Newsletter
Two new resources on permissive thinking – a self-monitoring record and a new handout from our cognitive distortion series.
Cognitive Distortions
Newsletter
Permissive Thinking
Exposure
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Highlights: Let's Talk About Burnout
We discuss the differences between burnout and stress, what keeps burnout going, and challenging negative thoughts to address burnout.
Burnout
Highlights
Fatigue
18th July 2023 Newsletter
Five more resources from our new 'Exposures for....' series, covering a range of suggested exercises for commonly experienced fears.
Exposure
Newsletter
ERP
Depression
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11th July 2023 Newsletter
Our new 'Exposures for....' series. Each handout provides a range of exposure exercises for addressing a specific fear.
Newsletter
Exposure
Complexity
Behavioral Experiments
27th June 2023 Newsletter
This edition sees the release of two more resources from our cognitive distortions series: Labeling and Mental Filter.
Cognitive Distortions
Newsletter
Telehealth
Grief
13th June 2023 Newsletter
Two new Spanish translations from our Understanding... series of guides: Understanding Burnout and Understanding Depersonalization and Derealization.
Newsletter
Eating Disorders
Low Self-Esteem
30th May 2023 Newsletter
The release of two more resources from our new cognitive distortions series: Disqualifying Others and Disqualifying The Positive.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Worry
GAD
16th May 2023 Newsletter
The release of three more resources from our new cognitive distortions series: Fortune Telling, Hindsight Bias, and Jumping to Conclusions.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Eating Disorders
2nd May 2023 Newsletter
Work more effectively with common thinking biases with our new series covering 20 of the most clinically-relevant cognitive distortions.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
25th April 2023 Newsletter
Extra insight from Dr Chris Irons on making the most out of our Psychology Tools for Developing Self-Compassion Audio Collection.
Newsletter
Compassion
CFT
Grief
Case Conceptualization
How To Work Most Effectively With Psychology Tools For Developing Self-Compassion Audio Collection
We’re really excited to have launched our largest audio collection so far: Psychology Tools for Developing Self-Compassion.
Compassion
CFT
Update
13th April 2023 Newsletter
We're releasing a 30-track audio collection guiding clients through an evidence-based programme of Compassionate Mind Training (CMT).
Newsletter
CFT
Compassion
28th March 2023 Newsletter
A new series alert, a brand new ‘All-or-nothing thinking’ resource, and a reminder of our two free audio tracks for developing compassion.
Newsletter
Cognitive Distortions
Compassion
Intolerance of Uncertainty
PTSD
Highlights: 4 Free Tools To Work Effectively With Anorexia
Highlights brings you some of the key things our eating disorder psychologists have been using and thinking about so far this year.
Anorexia
Highlights
Eating Disorders
Profile: Dr Chris Irons And Compassion Focused Therapy
We sat down with Dr Chris Irons, a clinical psychologist, author, researcher and leading international CFT trainer.
CFT
Compassion
Profile
8th March 2023 Newsletter
We're pleased to announce the release of three new resources for working with perfectionism and demanding standards.
Newsletter
Rules
Standards
Perfectionism
Reassurance
24th January 2023 Newsletter
We're releasing two new resources for working with socially anxious clients and helping them to direct their attention outwards
Newsletter
Social Anxiety
Guilt
10th January 2023 Newsletter
Understanding Fears and Phobias guide, and the release of our new 'What Keeps Fears And Phobias Going?' handout.
Newsletter
Phobia
PTSD
Case Conceptualization
21st December 2022 Newsletter
This edition sees the release of two new resources related to perfectionism, and an update to our hugely popular 'Understanding…' series.
Newsletter
Perfectionism
PTSD
Learn About Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) centres on the belief or felt sense that there is something wrong with how you look.
OCD
Learn About
Self Help
1st November 2022 Newsletter
This month’s edition focuses entirely on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and we're excited to announce the release of three new BDD resources.
Newsletter
BDD
5th September 2022 Newsletter
We're pleased to announce the release of two new resources: Window of Tolerance and Thought Record – Courtroom Trial.
Newsletter
Trauma
Learn About Burnout
Learn about what burnout is, what keeps it going, and some effective psychological treatments for burnout.
Burnout
Learn About
Self Help
Fatigue
