Best 10 CBT Therapy Books (+FREE CBT Worksheets Bundle)

1. Retrain Your Brain

By Seth J. Gillihan PhD

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES: The unique weekly structure of this therapy workbook is designed so each activity builds on the previous week’s work as you apply these techniques in your daily life. Relatable, real-life examples make the information and activities more accessible to CBT newcomers.

2. Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts

By Sally M. Winston PsyD, Martin N. Seif PhD

In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety.

3. The CBT Deck

By Seth Gillihan

Reduce stress in your life with practical, action-oriented, and mindfulness tools to quickly build positive emotions in your life. The 101 practices inside The CBT Deck will help you:
– Calm and redirect your thoughts
– Overcome self-limiting beliefs
– Choose actions that build the life you want
– Be more connected and engaged in the present moment

4. The CBT Workbook for Perfectionism

By Sharon Martin MSW LCSW

With this workbook, you’ll identify the causes of your perfectionism and the ways it is negatively impacting your life. Rather than measuring your self-worth by productivity and accomplishments, you’ll learn to exercise self-compassion, and extend that compassion to others. You’ll also learn ways to prioritize the things that really matter to you, without focusing on attaining fixed goals.

5. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets

By Lawrence Shapiro

65+ Ready-to-Use CBT worksheets that you can reproduce and use immediately with your clients.

With step-by-step directions and therapeutic explanations for each worksheets, these simple, yet effective tools give clients more clarity, meaning and beneficial feedback, plus tracks progress in a concrete way. Help clients get the most out of therapy by adapting these tools to their specific needs, symptoms and goals.

6. The CBT Workbook for Mental Health

By Simon Rego PsyD, Sarah Fader

This CBT workbook features:

• Specific solutions—Build a range of coping skills with chapters devoted to common issues: relationships and communication, anxiety, anger, stress, guilt, shame, cravings, and self-esteem.
• Simple exercises—The prompts and exercises in this CBT workbook only take between 10 and 30 minutes, so you can find time to practice them even on your busiest days.
• CBT for everyone—Discover how CBT works and what makes it so popular, with a range of exercises that help improve general emotional wellness.

7. Don’t Believe Everything You Feel

By Robert L. Leahy PhD

Don’t Believe Everything You Feel offers a groundbreaking approach blending CBT and emotional schema therapy to help you explore your own deeply held personal beliefs about emotions, determine if these beliefs are helpful or harmful, and find the motivation to adopt alternative, healthier coping strategies. Each chapter contains exercises such as self-assessment, expressive writing, or guided questioning to help you manage your emotions more productively.

8. The CBT Toolbox

By Jeff Riggenbach

The second edition contains 185 exercises and activities that are reproducible and ready-to-go for in-session, homework, or your own self-improvement.

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Anger
• Problem solving
• Overcoming daily obstacles
• Addictive behaviors
• Stress
• Goal setting
• Time management
• Dealing with difficult people

9. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies

By Rob Willson, Rhena Branc

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies shows you how you can easily incorporate the techniques of CBT into your day-to-day life and produce tangible results. You’ll learn how to take your negative thoughts to boot camp and retrain them, establishing new habits that tackle your toxic thoughts and retool your awareness, allowing you to be free of the weight of past negative thinking biases.

• Move on: Take a fresh look at your past and maybe even overcome it
• Mellow out: Relax yourself through techniques that reduce anger and stress
• Lighten up: Read practical advice on healthy attitudes for living and ways to nourish optimism
• Look again: Discover how to overcome low self-esteem and body image issues

10. The Negative Thoughts Workbook

By David A. Clark PhD

CBT Skills to Overcome the Repetitive Worry, Shame, and Rumination That Drive Anxiety and Depression

The Negative Thoughts Workbook offers a step-by-step program to help you target and effectively cope with negative thinking patterns. Based on effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies, this practical guide outlines a transdiagnostic approach to managing the thoughts that drive your emotional distress and threaten your mental health and well-being.