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Kids & adolescents

What changes when the client is still growing.

In this guide

Adolescent-specific guidance, kid-friendly worksheets, and the modalities that translate best to younger clients — plus client explainers a parent can read alongside.

4 modalities10 worksheets1 cases1 populations3 client explainers

Modalities

The therapies most relevant to this topic.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interlocking — change one and the others move.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Acceptance and change, held together — a skills-based therapy for emotion dysregulation.

Internal Family Systems

The mind is made of parts; underneath them all is Self — calm, curious, compassionate.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Stop fighting your inner experience; start moving toward what matters.

Worksheets

Free, printable, Quick-Send to clients.

Feelings Worksheet for Kids

16 feelings to circle, name, locate in the body, and draw

Anxiety Worksheet for Kids

Worry is a smoke alarm — let's check if it's a real fire or just toast

Anger Management Worksheet for Kids

An anger plan a child can actually fill out and use

Self-Esteem Worksheet for Kids

Build evidence — small, true things the inner critic isn't tracking

Social Skills Worksheet for Kids

Friendly body, friendly voice — and scripts for when it gets hard

Coping Skills Worksheet for Kids

Build a coping toolbox in calm — so it's ready when calm is gone

CBT Worksheet for Kids

A kid-sized thought record — thoughts, feelings, what I did

Emotional Regulation Worksheet for Kids

Notice, name, understand, choose — the wave-surfing version

Mindfulness Worksheet for Kids

Four kid-sized practices: senses, belly breathing, body scan, mindful minute

Worry Worksheet for Kids

The worry catcher — get it out of the head and onto paper

For clients

Plain-language explainers you can share or open together in session.

What are parts?

Your brain isn't one unified voice — it runs as many specialised networks, shaped by experience.

Fight, flight, freeze — and fawn

Four ancient responses your body runs before you can think.

Grounding techniques: 5-4-3-2-1 and beyond

Simple sensory anchors that pull you back into the room when your mind has run off.

Worked cases

Anonymized vignettes with formulation across 2–3 modalities.

Non-suicidal self-injury, recurrent; r/o emerging BPD

High-school sophomore with escalating cutting; identity exploration around gender; family conflict over autonomy.

Populations

What changes when you sit with this population.

Working with adolescents

Developmental brain, family system, and a still-forming identity — modalities and stance both need adjusting.

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