The First Session Toolkit: 18 Practical CBT Worksheets for Trainees

Feel more prepared for those important early CBT sessions.

The First Session Toolkit is a practical companion resource for adult CBT trainees, designed to help you prepare, conduct, close, and reflect on early therapy sessions.

Inside you will find 18 structured worksheets and prompts covering session preparation, referral review, agenda setting, boundaries, explaining CBT, consent and confidentiality, safety conversations, collaborative goals, a Five Areas starter map, session endings, between-session tasks, reflection and supervision.

Your purchase includes:

• Printable A4 PDF

• Fillable PDF edition

• 18 practical worksheets and prompts

• Worked examples

• First-ten-sessions learning log

• Supervision question builder

• Therapist client-printing permission (licence PDF included)

Designed for: CBT trainees and practitioners developing their early-session skills.

This is an educational learning resource for supervised practice. It does not replace professional training, supervision, clinical assessment, safeguarding procedures or local service policies.

Therapist client-printing permission

Therapists who purchase the First Session Toolkit may print blank worksheets for use with their own clients. Every printed worksheet must retain the original SelfImproveCoach logo or wordmark, branding and copyright notices. Clients may keep their printed worksheets for their own use. Each therapist must purchase their own copy.

This permission does not allow resale of the resource or printed worksheets, sharing or distributing the digital files, posting them online, rebranding or adaptation, copying for colleagues or teams, or wider distribution.

The included Client-Printing Licence PDF supplements the older personal-use wording in the printable and fillable editions. It specifically confirms client printing under the conditions above; all other restrictions remain in place. Existing permissions for necessary, secure sharing of completed material within authorised supervision remain unchanged. Follow service confidentiality and data-handling policies.