Printable mental health and coping skills worksheets
Why have I created these stress management worksheets and handouts, including mental health and coping skills worksheets?
Because there’s no doubt about it: life is often stressful! We all face countless – and sometimes overwhelming – demands on our time, energy and attention every day. So it’s vital that we take an active role in dealing with our stress levels.
The good news is that there’s much that you can do to regain a little equilibrium in your life.
Below, you’ll find downloadable stress management handouts to help you deal with various different kinds of stress.
Scroll down and choose which feels most relevant to you right now. You might need to use a couple of the worksheets if you’re dealing with many different sources of stress at the moment, but that’s totally fine – that’s what they’re all here for :-)

What do I know?
I was a counsellor with over 24 years’ experience, and I’ve been both a workplace therapist and a relationship/couple therapist. I know what causes people to seek help with stress.
I have designed these stress management worksheets for you to use yourself, or as an aid to help your partner. Of course, they can also be used in a professional context if you’re a support worker.
Ready to get started?
Managing stress at work
The workplace can for many people a huge source of stress due to issues such as:
- Difficult relationships with colleagues, team members or senior members of staff
- Team dynamics, including favouritism, laziness, stolen ideas
- Discrimination of any kind, e.g. ageism, bigotry, racism
- Lack of promotion prospects, or being passed over for a pay rise
- Being promoted and facing additional responsibilities
- Long, unsociable or unpredictable hours and/or shift-patterns
- Dealing with constant criticism at work
- Being forced to move to a different department or even another location.
And plenty more besides.
Given that most people spend a large proportion of their time at work, dealing with its stresses and strains is not something to be ignored…
Stress management and dealing with anger go hand in hand
When you’re stressed up to your eyeballs, you’ve little spare capacity for dealing with life’s normal ups and downs. It becomes all too easy to lose your temper when you’re so often feeling irritated and angry.
Uncontrollable anger can take even more of a toll on your relationships and your well-being. It puts you at risk or being emotionally abusive or even physically abusive.
Tackling the cause(s) of that stress is the most effective way of helping you to increase your spare capacity for dealing with life’s ups and downs. You’ll feel less stress and less likely to lose your temper.
Below is a worksheet to help you deal with your anger problem. However, if you continue to lose your rag too easily, I highly recommend you get some anger management counselling or therapy for whatever you suspect is bothering you deep down.
Stress management handouts – managing feelings and emotions
This stress management worksheet will help you to become more aware of your own needs and take the necessary action to reduce stress…
Stress management by ensuring you meet your emotional needs in balance
We all have innate needs that must be met in balance if we’re to feel as healthy and well as we possibly can.
Understanding what these emotional needs are and learning how to meet them can help you to become more resilient in the long-term.
Also, honing your stress management techniques now will help to inoculate you against the inevitable difficulties and challenges of the future, whatever they might be. (You know they’ll be along sometime!)
See also my article: 10 tips to relieve stress.
Stress management by reducing stress in your relationship
Another biggie: relationship stress. During my many years working as a relationship therapist, I saw and heard it all.
Relationship stress can push your body and mind to breaking point, but there is much that you can do yourself to address the situation, even if your partner isn’t willing to engage right now.
Just in case you blame your spouse or partner for your relationship problems and anger, be sure to learn how to become a better spouse and the secrets to a healthy relationship.
When you blame your spouse for your problems, you probably feel stuck and out of control. You end up expecting and hoping that – somehow – they’ll mend their ways. The thing is – you cannot make your partner or spouse do anything!
So, here’s my stress-management worksheet to help you fix your relationship.
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
Walter Anderson
Reduce stress by calling on your social circle
A sense of belonging and the opportunity to give and receive attention are essential human needs. Both of these needs can be met by developing and nurturing your social networks (offline and online).
And when you’re struggling, asking for help from trusted people in your social circle helps them to feel needed. And it offers you an opportunity to offload, be comforted and get another perspective on your situation.
Tapping into your social circle also paves the way for you to do the same in return. Being able to help others can be a great way to boost your mood.
Be sure to avoid negative people and figure out who you can really trust to help you with support and advice. See my article on getting the right relationship advice for further information.
Stress management by treating yourself as your very best friend
Value yourself enough to take good care of yourself. Your everyday actions can either add to your stress level or help you to reduce it. And ensuring you’re generally well and healthy is one of your best tools for being able to better manage all the stresses that life tries to throw at you next.
I also have a ton of tips and advice on how to look after yourself in my article on how to deal with depression naturally. You’ll discover how you can help soothe and comfort yourself when you’re going through a stressful time.
Finally
I hope all the tips and advice in my stress management worksheets will help you to start feeling better soon. I suspect that just by having gotten far means that you’re already on the way to taking some positive action.
With the help of the above worksheets and any other support you need, you can get back in the driving seat and face your difficulties head-on.
I know you’ve got the strength and the resources to overcome the stress you’re struggling with right now. I’m rooting for you! :-)
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