What I use in session — now yours, anytime.
Workbooks, worksheets, and guided practices from Kristen Burrus, LCMFT, LMAC — practical tools for calming your nervous system, understanding your patterns, and navigating the moments that are hardest to face alone.
Start here · no cost
Three you can have right now
Free to download, free to share, and each one leads somewhere if you want to go further.
10 Grounding Exercises for Calm and Clarity
Ten ways to settle your body when your head is going too fast. 6 pages.
Download freeHow Old Is This Voice?
Three pages on the critical voice in your head and where it learned to talk that way.
Download freeThe Same Argument Again
For couples having the same fight on a loop. Works alone or together. 6 pages.
Download freeAnxiety and intrusive thoughts
For a mind that will not stop offering you the worst version of things.
The Thought Is Not the Threat
A thought showing up is not proof of anything. This takes one intrusive thought all the way through — what it is, why it sticks, and what to do instead of arguing with it.
Worksheets · $9 each 5 worksheets
Trust the Wings, Not the Branch
For needing certainty before you can rest — any theme
Calming the body
Before anything else works, the body has to come down a little.
Coming Back to Yourself
Emotional regulation from the ground up — what your body is doing, what you need, and the boundaries that hold once you can feel them.
Calm in the Body
Six worksheets for the nervous system, including the free grounding guide.
Worksheets · $9 each 4 worksheets
Cravings and habits
For anything you reach for more than you would like — a drink, a vape, the phone, a bet, a cart full of things you did not plan to buy.
Room Between the Urge and You
More say in what you reach for. Where the habit came from, the parts of your life it reaches into, and the decisions about it that are yours to make.
Worksheets · $9 each 1 worksheet
Burnout, people-pleasing and heavy days
For running on empty, saying yes too fast, and the weeks that feel like wading.
Stretched Thin
Three worksheets for burnout, people-pleasing and low mood, plus How Old Is This Voice?
Worksheets · $9 each 3 worksheets
Small Steps on Heavy Days
Small, values-based steps when everything feels like too much
Grief, anger and acceptance
For the losses that did not resolve, and the anger sitting on top of something else.
Grief, Anger and Acceptance
Three worksheets that work together, in the order they tend to be needed.
Worksheets · $9 each 3 worksheets
Relationships and family
Whether the other person is doing the work with you or not.
Two Houses
For couples who will both do the work — where your reactions come from, what each of you is protecting, and how to repair after a hard moment.
The House Next Door
For a difficult parent, family member or partner who will not do this with you. Written for the person who is doing it on their own for now.
Dating Without Losing Yourself
Staying yourself while you date. Both editions are included — one for when matches are few, one for when there are too many — because most people need each at different times.
Worksheets · $9 each 1 worksheet
Feeling like you are not enough
For a feeling no amount of evidence seems to move.
Room to Feel Enough
The degree, the promotion, the friends who call first — and the feeling stays exactly where it was. This finds where the verdict came from and what you would rather conclude.
Knowing yourself — the House of Self
The model everything else is built on: values as the foundation, boundaries as the walls, access, perspective, and the meaning you live under.
The House of Self
All five parts of the house in one place, built from the ground up.
Inside the House
Self-awareness applied to ordinary life — boundaries, work and home, and where your days actually go.
Worksheets · $9 each 7 worksheets
The Glass You’re Looking Through
Perspective — how you see yourself and everyone else
What’s next.
Sessions
Conversations for understanding yourself, trusting yourself, and choosing what comes next. Written as a series of therapy-style conversations, Sessions slows down one part of your experience at a time — building the skills to trust your own answers, not just borrow Kristen’s.
A therapist’s tools, outside the therapy room.
Kristen Burrus is a licensed mental health therapist and the founder of Enlighten Services in Overland Park, Kansas, where she works with clients on trauma, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. These resources come directly out of that work — the same language, models, and exercises she uses in session, put into a form you can return to on your own.
Learn About Therapy SessionsThese are educational and reflective tools, not therapy and not a substitute for it.
