Better Support, Bigger Library: Even More Treatments That Work™ to Help Your Clients

Following the success of our partnership with Treatments That Work™ and Oxford University Press, we've added a further 23 books to the library!

30 Jul 2025

Update

Translation Spotlight – Polish (2025)

Over the past few months, we have published 14 new Polish translations of our resources!

23 Jul 2025

Translations

Insights: New Perspectives On Case Formulation With Dr Naomi Thrower

Dr Naomi Thrower discusses her new research, which surveyed more than 100 clinical psychologists about what psychological formulations need.

15 Jul 2025

Case Conceptualization Insights

Research Spotlight: Sexual Minorities in Therapy

This research spotlight explores how therapies can best support and accommodate for sexual-minority clients.

09 Jul 2025

DBT CBT Stigma

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.

17 Jun 2025

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.

11 Jun 2025

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.

03 Jun 2025

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.

28 May 2025

CBT

Testing Client Beliefs Using Surveys

We’re pleased to share an exercise called Survey – Testing Your Beliefs.

14 May 2025

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.

14 Apr 2025

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.

01 Apr 2025

Eating Disorders Insights

Translation Spotlight – French (2024-2025)

Over the past few months, we have published 38 new French translations of our resources!

26 Mar 2025

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.

11 Mar 2025

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)

04 Feb 2025

Insights Compassion Criticism

Research Spotlight: Eating Disorders

This edition focuses on eating disorders, which are characterized by a persistent disturbance in eating behaviours.

13 Nov 2024

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.

06 Nov 2024

Anger Relationships Forgiveness

Research Spotlight: Alexithymia

This edition focuses on alexithymia, which is characterized by a difficulty in recognizing and articulating feelings.

30 Oct 2024

Alexithymia Schema Emotions Research

Translation Spotlight - Arabic (2024)

We have released brand new translations of our cognitive distortions series of resources in Arabic.

25 Oct 2024

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.

23 Oct 2024

Forgiveness Anger Relationships

Research Spotlight: Start Of Treatment

This edition focuses on key treatment considerations, strategies, and interventions in the early stages of therapy.

18 Oct 2024

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.

16 Oct 2024

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.

11 Oct 2024

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.

09 Oct 2024

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.

07 Oct 2024

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!

02 Oct 2024

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.

27 Sep 2024

Schema Approval/Admiration Seeking Entitlement

Translation Spotlight - Hindi (2024)

We have released 23 new Hindi translations from our cognitive distortion series.

25 Sep 2024

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.

20 Sep 2024

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).

18 Sep 2024

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.

13 Jun 2024

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

10 Jun 2024

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.

01 Jun 2024

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)

07 May 2024

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.

30 Apr 2024

16th April 2024 Newsletter

We have 2 new Schema resources: Emotional Deprivation and Emotional Inhibition as well as research on PTSD and affective forecasting

16 Apr 2024

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).

02 Apr 2024

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

19 Mar 2024

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.

05 Mar 2024

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.

20 Feb 2024

Newsletter Depression Stigma

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.

30 Jan 2024

Insights Depression Complexity

23rd January 2024 Newsletter

Announcing the first two resources from our upcoming Schema series: What Are Schemas? and Unmet Emotional Needs.

23 Jan 2024

Newsletter Schema Alexithymia BPD

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.

23 Jan 2024

12th December 2023 Newsletter

We highlight our updated Client/Professional formats, and release an exercise designed to familiarize clients with cognitive restructuring.

12 Dec 2023

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.

28 Nov 2023

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.

28 Nov 2023

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.

14 Nov 2023

Newsletter Responsibility Transdiagnostic Unified Protocol

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.

07 Nov 2023

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.

24 Oct 2023

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.

19 Oct 2023

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.

10 Oct 2023

Newsletter Cognitive Distortions Problem Solving Boundaries

An Apology And Update On Our Resource Development Process

10 Oct 2023

Update

26th September 2023 Newsletter

This edition sees the release of three new cognitive distortion resources: Social Comparison, Thought-Action Fusion, and Externalizing.

26 Sep 2023

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.

19 Sep 2023

Newsletter Transference Urges Self-Monitoring Compassion

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’.

19 Sep 2023

Insights Process Transference

12th September 2023 Newsletter

This edition sees the release of two new cognitive distortion resources: Overgeneralization and "Should" Statements.

12 Sep 2023

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.

29 Aug 2023

Newsletter Exposure OCD

Learn About Fears and Phobias

Learn more about fears and phobias, including causes, maintenance factors, and effective psychological treatments.

16 Aug 2023

Anxiety Phobia Learn About Self Help

Learn About Death Anxiety

Learn more about death anxiety (or ‘thanatophobia’), including causes, maintenance factors, and psychological treatments.

16 Aug 2023

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.

15 Aug 2023

Newsletter Cognitive Distortions Depression

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?

08 Aug 2023

Newsletter Death Anxiety Hopelessness

1st August 2023 Newsletter

This edition sees the release of two new cognitive distortion resources: Magnification and Minimization and Mind Reading.

01 Aug 2023

Newsletter Cognitive Distortions Case Conceptualization

25th July 2023 Newsletter

Two new resources on permissive thinking – a self-monitoring record and a new handout from our cognitive distortion series.

25 Jul 2023

Cognitive Distortions Newsletter Permissive Thinking Exposure

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.

25 Jul 2023

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.

18 Jul 2023

Exposure Newsletter ERP Depression

11th July 2023 Newsletter

Our new 'Exposures for....' series. Each handout provides a range of exposure exercises for addressing a specific fear.

11 Jul 2023

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.

27 Jun 2023

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.

13 Jun 2023

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.

30 May 2023

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.

16 May 2023

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.

02 May 2023

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.

25 Apr 2023

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.

25 Apr 2023

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).

13 Apr 2023

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.

28 Mar 2023

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.

23 Mar 2023

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.

21 Mar 2023

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.

08 Mar 2023

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

24 Jan 2023

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.

10 Jan 2023

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.

21 Dec 2022

Newsletter Perfectionism PTSD

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