SOAR Educational and Mental Health Therapy

Resources

Guides, worksheets and interactive tools to use between sessions — for parents, for performers, and for anyone curious about how this work actually works. Free to read, download and print.

Nothing here is tracked. These open in your browser or download to your device. Nothing you type into the interactive tools is sent to SOAR or stored anywhere but your own device — and none of it is a substitute for working with someone.

Understanding yourself

Language for what is going on inside, which is usually the first thing to go missing.

Emotion Wheel

For when the only words available are good, bad, or fine. A wheel of feeling words that gets more specific as you move outward.

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Support Wheel

Who is actually in your corner, and for what. Most people find the answer is both smaller and better than they assumed.

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Wise Mind

The place where reason and emotion meet, and how to tell when you are standing in it.

PDF · 12 KB

Self as Context

You are the sky, not the weather. A worksheet for loosening the grip of the roles you have been handed.

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Tangled Emotions

Anger braided with hurt, relief knotted with guilt. A worksheet for finding the separate strands inside one big feeling.

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When you need it now

For the moment itself, not the reflection afterwards. Worth printing before you need them.

Panic Attack Protocol

What to do while it is happening, in the order to do it. Print this one before you need it.

PDF · 63 KB

Panic Reset Guide

Walks you through a reset one step at a time, so you do not have to hold the sequence in your head.

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Between sessions

The work does not only happen in the room.

Mission and Vision Workbook

Thirteen sections on writing a mission and a vision for who you are at home and in your performance world. The printable twin of the online workbook.

PDF · 76 KB

Mission and Vision — Short Form

The same work in five pages, for people who would rather not be handed a booklet. Two sittings and a pencil.

PDF · 59 KB

Therapy Homework Companion

Carrying the work out of the room and into the week, without turning it into another job.

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House Mapping

Which room in you answered the door. Trace a behaviour you want to change back to the part it came from, then choose a different room to answer from.

PDF · 73 KB

Understanding therapy

What the approaches actually do, in plain terms.

EMDR: Processing in the Brain

What EMDR is actually doing underneath. Walk through the amygdala, hippocampus and prefrontal cortex at your own pace.

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Making health decisions

Straight information about choices that get made outside the therapy room.

GLP-1 Medications and Eating Disorders

What clients and families should know before starting — the risks that get less attention than the weight loss, and the questions worth asking a prescriber.

PDF · 17 KB

For parents

Support for the person doing the hardest job with the least training.

Emotional Intelligence: A Parent Guide

Helping a child name what they feel, and handle it once it is named.

PDF · 1875 KB

Phones, Learning and Self-Regulation

What the research actually says about attention, screens and the developing brain.

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Screen Time by Developmental Stage

For teens on one side, parents on the other. Age-by-age guidance, updated for the AAP’s 2026 change.

PDF · 265 KB

Understanding Narcissistic Parents

Written for adults still carrying it: the patterns, and what recognising them makes possible.

PDF · 11 KB

For younger clients

Interactive, quick, and designed to be used on a phone.

Reading Pet Emotions

Guess what the animal is feeling, then see the cues you missed. Twelve animals.

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Brave Steps

Build a ladder toward the scary thing, one rung at a time.

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Worth Noting

Noticing what went right, on the days when nothing seems to have.

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Motivation Spinner

A nudge for when starting is the hard part.

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Real Talk Spinner

Conversation prompts that get past fine.

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Let's Talk Spinner

Lighter prompts, for warming up rather than diving in.

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Quest Builder

Turn something you are avoiding into a quest with levels.

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Optimism Worksheet

Rewriting the pessimistic version of the story. Fillable.

PDF · 15 KB

Your Brain on Screens

Why the apps are hard to put down, what the research found, and a self-check that is not about hours.

PDF · 265 KB

For peak performers

Athletes, musicians, performers, high achievers — and the pressure that comes with it.

EMDR for Performance Anxiety

Why willpower alone does not resolve it, and what does.

PDF · 690 KB

Peak Performance Therapy

What it is, who it is for, and what changes.

PDF · 4 KB

Public Speaking Workbook

For the presentation that has been keeping you up at night.

PDF · 4 KB

EMDR Peak Performance Prep Kit

Preparing before it matters, rather than recovering after.

PDF · 4 KB

Neurodiversity

Written from the inside, not about you from the outside.

Understanding Autistic Burnout

What it is, how it differs from depression, and why rest alone is not enough.

PDF · 4 KB

Autistic Burnout Triage Sheet

One page for the worst weeks. What to cut first, and what actually counts as recovery.

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For other therapists

Handouts and language from this practice, free to borrow and adapt for your own.

Why Your Session Ends at 53 Minutes

A one-page note to clients explaining the 53-minute hour and same-day notes — written to be handed over, or rewritten in your own voice.

PDF · 43 KB

DEAR MAN: Asking for What You Need

Four pages on the DBT interpersonal effectiveness skills — DEAR MAN, GIVE and FAST, two worked examples, and a drafting worksheet. Adapted from Linehan, ready to hand to a client.

PDF · 162 KB