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Therapeutic Worksheets

A growing library of 52 evidence-based, neurodivergent-affirming worksheets you can use alongside therapy or as part of your own self-guided practice. All resources are free and private.

24 worksheets

Neurodivergent Support

Affirming worksheets for autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, and PDA-profile adults — built around how your brain actually works, not how it is supposed to.

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Sensory & Regulation

Sensory Toolkit Builder

Build a personalized regulation toolkit by mapping the touch, sound, visual, movement, and scent inputs that help your nervous system feel safe.

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Masking & Identity

Masking Inventory & Cost Assessment

Identify where you mask in daily life and assess the energetic, emotional, and physical cost of those adaptations.

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Masking & Identity

Unmasking Safety Planning

Plan small, safe steps toward unmasking by identifying low-risk relationships, environments, and practices.

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Burnout Recovery

Autistic Burnout Warning Signs Tracker

Track early warning signs across cognition, sensory tolerance, social capacity, and emotional regulation to catch burnout earlier.

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Burnout Recovery

Burnout Recovery Planning Guide

A structured guide to recovering from autistic burnout — reducing demands, restoring resources, and rebuilding capacity.

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ADHD & Executive Function

ADHD Executive Function Daily Planner

A planner designed around how ADHD brains actually work — energy, interest, urgency, and novelty rather than rigid time blocks.

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ADHD & Executive Function

Task Initiation Strategies Menu

A menu of evidence-based strategies for starting tasks when executive function is offline — pick the one that fits the moment.

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Emotional Regulation

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Coping Plan

Recognize the spike of RSD, separate the feeling from the facts, and apply grounding strategies that work for you.

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Emotional Regulation

Emotional Intensity Mapping Tool

Map the intensity, body location, and trajectory of strong emotions so you can intervene earlier with the right tool.

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ADHD & Executive Function

Hyperfocus Inventory

Catalog your hyperfocus patterns — what triggers them, what they cost, and how to use them as a strength rather than a trap.

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ADHD & Executive Function

Body Doubling Accountability Planner

Plan body doubling sessions — in person or virtual — to make hard tasks easier through co-regulated focus.

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Relationships

AuDHD Relationship Needs Communicator

Translate AuDHD needs into clear language partners, friends, and family can understand and respond to.

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Sensory & Regulation

Stimming Awareness & Acceptance Log

Notice your stims without judgment, identify what each one regulates, and build acceptance for the body wisdom they represent.

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Sensory & Regulation

Interoception Body Check-In

Build interoceptive awareness — tuning into hunger, thirst, fatigue, temperature, and emotion signals from inside the body.

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Emotional Regulation

Alexithymia Emotion Identification Guide

A scaffold for identifying emotions when the words do not come easily — body sensations, situations, and emotion families.

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PDA Profile

Demand Avoidance Pattern Recognition

Recognize your demand-avoidance patterns and the underlying nervous system signals driving them.

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PDA Profile

PDA Profile Collaborative Goals Sheet

Set goals collaboratively in a way that respects autonomy, reduces demand pressure, and uses indirect language.

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Identity & Joy

Neurodivergent Identity Affirmation Journal

Daily prompts for affirming your neurodivergent identity, releasing internalized ableism, and celebrating your wiring.

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Identity & Joy

Late Diagnosis Grief Processing

A guided worksheet for processing the grief, anger, and relief that often follows a late autism or ADHD diagnosis.

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Family & Parenting

AuDHD Parenting Strengths Inventory

Identify the unique strengths AuDHD parents bring — empathy, creativity, hyperfocus on care — and the supports that protect them.

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School & Learning

Twice-Exceptional Student Support Planner

Plan supports for 2e students whose giftedness and learning differences both need accommodating in school and at home.

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Relationships

Neurodivergent Communication Preferences Card

A printable card to share with employers, partners, and providers that explains your communication needs and access requirements.

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Burnout Recovery

Energy Accounting Daily Tracker

Track energy in and energy out across the day so you can spot the patterns that drain you and the ones that restore you.

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Identity & Joy

Autistic Joy Inventory

Catalog the special interests, sensory pleasures, and stims that bring you joy — and protect them as a daily practice.

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Family & Parenting

Tools for parents, co-parents, and caregivers — including specialized resources for raising neurodivergent kids and navigating family systems.

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Family Systems

Family Roles Mapping Worksheet

Map the explicit and implicit roles each family member carries — caregiver, peacemaker, scapegoat, hero — and how they shape the system.

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Family Systems

Genogram Guided Reflection

Build a multi-generational family map and reflect on the patterns, relationships, and stories that shape who you are today.

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Family Systems

Intergenerational Patterns Identifier

Identify the patterns — communication, attachment, conflict, money, addiction — that cycle across generations in your family.

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Conscious Parenting

Parenting Triggers & Responses Log

Track the moments your child triggers your nervous system, what gets activated, and how you want to respond next time.

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Neurodivergent Family

Neurodivergent Parenting Accommodation Planner

Design accommodations that fit your neurodivergent child — sensory, executive function, communication, and emotional regulation.

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Co-Parenting & Divorce

Co-Parenting Communication Agreement

A template for building a clear, consistent co-parenting communication agreement — channels, response times, and conflict protocols.

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Co-Parenting & Divorce

Divorce Psychoeducation for Parents

Evidence-based guidance on what kids need from parents during and after divorce — by developmental stage and temperament.

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Child Emotional Skills

Helping Kids Understand Big Feelings

Scripts, visuals, and language for helping young children name, locate, and ride out big emotions without shame.

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Family Systems

Family Meeting Structure Template

A simple, repeatable structure for weekly family meetings — appreciations, logistics, problem-solving, and connection.

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Caregiver Wellbeing

Parent Burnout Assessment

A self-assessment for parental burnout — exhaustion, emotional distancing, and loss of efficacy — with recovery starting points.

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Conscious Parenting

Parenting Values Clarification Worksheet

Clarify the values you want to parent from — the kind of parent you want to be when no one is watching and everything is hard.

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Conscious Parenting

Rupture & Repair Practice Guide

A practice guide for repairing after parenting ruptures — owning impact, modeling repair, and rebuilding trust with your child.

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Child Emotional Skills

Sibling Conflict Resolution Framework

A step-by-step framework for de-escalating sibling conflict and coaching kids through repair without taking sides.

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Neurodivergent Family

Parenting a Neurodivergent Child: Grief & Acceptance

A worksheet for processing the grief and arriving at the acceptance that often comes with parenting a neurodivergent child.

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School Advocacy

IEP / 504 Advocacy Prep Worksheet

Prepare for an IEP or 504 meeting — strengths, concerns, accommodations to request, and questions to ask the school team.

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School Advocacy

School Communication Documentation Log

A structured log for documenting all school communications — calls, emails, meetings — for IEP, 504, or behavioral concerns.

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Neurodivergent Family

Sensory-Friendly Home Environment Checklist

A room-by-room checklist for designing a sensory-friendly home that supports regulation for the whole family.

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Neurodivergent Family

Bedtime Routine Builder for Neurodivergent Kids

Build a predictable, sensory-aware bedtime routine that works with — not against — your neurodivergent child's wiring.

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Child Emotional Skills

Meltdown vs. Tantrum Psychoeducation

Learn the neurological difference between meltdowns and tantrums — and the very different responses each one needs.

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Conscious Parenting

Co-Regulation Strategies for Caregivers

A menu of co-regulation strategies — voice, body, breath, presence — for grounding your child by first grounding yourself.

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Family Systems

Family Strengths Inventory

Identify the strengths, resources, and protective factors your family already carries — and how to build on them intentionally.

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Family Systems

Boundaries in Family Systems

Map the boundaries in your family system — too rigid, too diffuse, healthy — and where adjustments would protect everyone.

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Family Systems

Estranged Family Relationship Processing Guide

A guide for processing the complex grief, relief, and ambiguity that comes with family estrangement.

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Co-Parenting & Divorce

Blended Family Transition Planner

Plan the transition into a blended family — roles, routines, names, expectations, and the time it really takes to belong.

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Caregiver Wellbeing

Caregiver Compassion Fatigue Assessment

A self-assessment for compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress — for parents, partners, and professional caregivers.

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Getting the Most from These Worksheets

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Be Honest

Write your genuine thoughts and feelings. There are no right or wrong answers.

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Be Consistent

Regular practice builds skills. Try to complete worksheets at the same time each day.

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Discuss in Therapy

Bring completed worksheets to your sessions for deeper exploration with your therapist.

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