"What Is Worry?" Worksheet

If you’re a mental health therapist looking for a ‘What Is Worry?’ worksheet to support clients in enhancing their coping strategies and managing their anxiety, you’re in the right place. 

We have a range of anxiety worksheets to choose from depending on the age of your client and the problem they’re facing. Visual aids like the ‘What Is Worry?’ worksheet are a helpful tool to provide psychoeducation about anxiety. 

In this guide, you’ll find an overview of anxiety worksheets for therapists, explaining “What Is Worry?” and how to stop worrying. We’ve also included free printable anxiety worksheets for kids. You can bookmark this page and save these worksheets for future use in your electronic health record (EHR).

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How anxiety worksheets can help clients

Worksheets are a helpful tool that you can use in your practice to illustrate interventions for anxiety treatment. 

As a therapeutic tool and visual aid, anxiety worksheets can provide several benefits, including:

• Opportunities for educating clients about anxiety
• Support for individuals in identifying symptoms of anxiety
• Increased awareness of anxiety triggers
• Self-esteem and confidence to problem solve
• Opportunities to introduce other interventions, like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

How to help clients stop worrying

Anxiety worksheets provide therapists opportunities to explore how worry may show up for clients. 

While it may not be possible to stop a client from worrying altogether, these interventions can build awareness of how worry shows up for your client and provide them with an opportunity for cognitive restructuring to build new thought patterns around anxiety. 

You may want to approach treating worry or anxiety by first asking your client to complete a generalized anxiety disorder questionnaire on intake and explore the specific impacts of worry and anxiety in your assessment. 

Then, worksheets, like the “What Is Worry?” worksheet, can be incorporated into the client’s treatment plan.

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How to use the “What Is Worry?” Worksheet

The ‘What Is Worry?’ worksheet helps to support clients in several ways: 

• Provides an opportunity to help clients identify how worry feels in their body
• Explores situations or environments connected to worry
• Highlights thought patterns and behaviors of your client when worried/anxious
• Helps clients to collaboratively problem solve

Here are the directions for the ‘What Is Worry’ worksheet:

First, provide psychoeducation to your client about the key features of worry and different situations in which it might show up. Then, move to the second part of the worksheet and ask the client to identify where in their body they experience worry by circling the diagram and description. In the next section of the worksheet, support your client to identify thoughts they have around worry, then collaboratively problem solve ways to control or disrupt worrying thoughts.

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Anxiety worksheets for kids

There are several types of anxiety worksheets that clinicians can use with young clients such as:

• CBT child anxiety worksheets
• Worry time worksheet, where clients learn to set a time and place for worry
• What to do when you worry too much worksheet

These kinds of worksheets aim to support clients in addressing how anxiety shows up in the body. The worksheets provide them with an opportunity to reframe worry and anxiety so it’s less disruptive in their everyday lives.

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