Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Guide & Toolkit: CBT School Counseling Materials

Looking for ready-to-use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) materials for your school counseling sessions? This comprehensive CBT School Counseling Guide & Toolkit (printable ebook) includes everything you need to implement CBT in a school setting, from detailed intervention guides to student worksheets, handouts, progress monitoring tools, and guides. Perfect for individual counseling, small groups, Tier 2 interventions, or MTSS-aligned support, this resource helps you deliver structured, skill-based, evidence-informed counseling with measurable results in mind.

What’s Included

This toolkit is packed with practical, school-ready materials designed to save you time and support meaningful, trackable student growth:

• Complete CBT Guidebook explaining core CBT concepts including the CBT cycle, identifying unhelpful thoughts, cognitive distortions, challenging and reframing, coping thoughts, body signals, calming strategies, behavioral activation, and exposure, with clear explanations, sample scripts, and direct application to school counseling.
• Chapters on Applying CBT to Common School Concerns including structured 6–8 session intervention guides for:
  • Anxiety
  • Perfectionism & Performance
  • Emotion Regulation & Anger
  • Self-Esteem
  • Each intervention includes session focus, goals, activities, sample scripts, between-session practice, and progress monitoring.
    
• Over 100 Reproducible Worksheets, Handouts, and Student Tools, including:
  • Cognitive distortion guides
  • Thought records
  • Coping thought builders
  • Fear ladders
  • Behavioral activation planners
  • Regulation strategy sheets
  • Body awareness guides
  • Exposure tracking forms
  • Reflection sheets
  • Progress monitoring charts and logs
    
• Tiered MTSS Application Chapter outlining how to integrate CBT at Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 with concrete examples of what to teach at each level.
• Comprehensive Progress Monitoring Tools including symptom rating scales, skill-use trackers, exposure logs, behavioral data sheets, and documentation templates to demonstrate measurable growth.

Works For Common Student Concerns:

• Anxiety & school avoidance
• Test anxiety & performance stress
• Perfectionism
• Anger & emotional reactivity
• Low self-esteem
• Conflict resolution
• Social skill development
• Executive functioning challenges
• Avoidance & motivation issues

Why Counselors Love It

• Structured, step-by-step session guides
• Print-and-go worksheets and visuals
• Evidence-based CBT strategies adapted specifically for schools
• MTSS-aligned framework
• Built-in progress monitoring for accountability
• Practical tools for real school schedules and large caseloads
• Printable ebook (use year after year)

Perfect For:

✔ School Counselors
✔ School Social Workers
✔ School-Based Therapists
✔ Counseling Interns & Graduate Students

This all-in-one CBT Guide + Toolkit empowers you to run structured, skill-based counseling sessions that help students understand their thoughts, regulate their emotions, change unhelpful patterns, and take meaningful action. Save time, stay organized, and feel confident knowing you have a complete evidence-based framework at your fingertips.