Therapy Feelings Worksheet
Free, interactive feelings wheels designed for therapy sessions. Download as PDFs for client handouts or use interactively in telehealth sessions.
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Emotion & Feeling Wheel
Explore the full spectrum of human emotions — from anger to joy, fear to love. Identify and name exactly what you're experiencing.
Mood Check-in Wheel
Check in with your current mood state. Perfect for daily standups and team meetings to quickly share where you're at.
Energy Level Wheel
Map your energy across physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions. Understand what fuels you and what drains you.
Work Satisfaction Wheel
Reflect on your professional experience — from engagement to burnout, growth to stagnation. Share where you stand with your team.
Relationship Dynamics Wheel
Explore how you relate to the people around you — in teams, partnerships, and communities. Name the dynamics that shape your connections.
Life Values Grid
Explore your core life values through an interactive grid. Discover what drives your decisions, shapes your identity, and guides your path forward.
Human Needs Grid
Identify your unmet needs using Nonviolent Communication principles. Understanding your needs is the first step to expressing them clearly and getting them met.
Character Strengths Wheel
Explore your character strengths through the VIA framework. Discover the qualities that energise you, define your best self, and help you thrive.
Nervous System States Wheel
Explore your autonomic nervous system states through the lens of Polyvagal Theory. Identify whether you're in a regulated, connected state or a protective stress response — and find precise language for what your body and mind are experiencing.
Team Pulse Wheel
A fast, honest mood check-in designed for team meetings. In 30 seconds, identify exactly where you are today — energized, steady, stretched, stressed, struggling, or checked out. Built for all-hands, standups, retros, and 1-on-1s.
Mood & Food Wheel
Explore the connection between your mood and your food cravings. Every emotional state has a food language — from comfort to celebration, stress-eating to nourishment. Find what your body and feelings are asking for today.
Self-Care Wheel
Explore the six dimensions of self-care to identify where you're thriving and where you need more attention. True wellbeing requires balance across physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, personal, and professional domains.
Awareness Wheel
Explore the dimensions of conscious awareness — from external senses to internal states, from mental activity to relational connection. Developing awareness is the foundation of mindfulness and the key to living with presence and intention.
Money Mindset Wheel
Explore your emotional relationship with money. Identify the feelings that drive your financial decisions — from anxiety to abundance, scarcity to empowerment.
Boundaries Wheel
Explore and strengthen your personal boundaries. Identify where you need more protection and where you can open up — across physical, emotional, digital, and social domains.
ADHD Emotion Wheel
A focused emotion wheel for ADHD adults and teens. Identify fast, intense emotional states and name them with precision.
ADHD Feelings Wheel
A practical feelings wheel for ADHD check-ins. Move from vague intensity to precise feeling words you can use in real life.
Emotional Dysregulation ADHD
An ADHD dysregulation wheel focused on high-intensity states, triggers, and regulation-oriented naming.
Stress Response Wheel
Identify your stress response patterns and understand how your body and mind react to pressure. From acute activation to chronic shutdown, this wheel helps you name your stress state with precision.
Burnout Wheel
Identify the specific dimensions of burnout you're experiencing. Burnout isn't just exhaustion—it's a complex syndrome affecting energy, connection, meaning, and efficacy. Use this wheel to pinpoint where you need support.
Decision-Making Clarity Wheel
Understand your internal state when making decisions. From crystal clarity to paralyzing confusion, this wheel helps you identify what's blocking or supporting your decision-making process.
Grief & Loss Wheel
Grief is not linear and it has no deadline. Whether you've lost a person, a relationship, a role, a dream, or a version of yourself — this wheel gives language to where you are right now. Use it to understand, not to rush.
Connection & Loneliness Wheel
Loneliness is a global public health crisis — but not everyone's loneliness is the same. This wheel helps you identify what kind of connection is missing or present in your life right now, so you can address the right need.
Shame & Guilt Wheel
Shame says "I am bad." Guilt says "I did something bad." Both are powerful forces — one drives growth, the other drives hiding. This wheel helps you name what's actually happening so it can stop running the show from the shadows.
Team Morale Check
Check your team's morale beyond today's mood. Understand whether people feel valued, aligned, and committed — or if something deeper is eroding engagement. Best for monthly or quarterly check-ins.
Meeting Energy Check
A 15-second check-in for the start of any meeting. Share how you're arriving — energized, focused, neutral, distracted, drained, or overwhelmed — so the team can adjust pace and expectations.
How to download: Click any worksheet above to view it interactively. Then click the download button in the top-right to save as PDF for printing or sharing with clients.
Why Therapists Love This Tool
Evidence-Based Approach
Built on research showing that emotional granularity improves mental health outcomes and emotional regulation.
Structured Exploration
Guides clients from broad emotions to specific feelings, creating a clear path for emotional discovery.
Client-Centered
Lets clients explore at their own pace, increasing engagement and reducing defensiveness.
Works Across Modalities
Compatible with CBT, DBT, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, and trauma-informed care.
How to Use in Sessions
- Opening Check-In: Start sessions by asking: 'Where are you on the wheel today?'
- Emotion Identification: When clients say 'I'm fine' or 'I don't know,' use the wheel to explore beneath surface responses.
- Naming Complex Emotions: Help clients differentiate between similar feelings (e.g., guilt vs. shame, anxiety vs. fear).
- Tracking Progress: Monitor emotional patterns over time by reviewing past selections.
- Homework Tool: Encourage clients to use the wheel between sessions for daily emotional check-ins.
What is a Therapy Feelings Worksheet?
A therapy feelings worksheet (also called an emotion wheel worksheet or feelings chart) is a therapeutic tool that helps clients identify and articulate their emotional experiences. Unlike simple mood trackers, a feelings worksheet provides a structured framework for exploring the full spectrum of human emotions — from broad categories like anger and sadness to nuanced feelings like resentment, grief, or overwhelm.
Research shows that clients with higher emotional granularity (the ability to make fine-grained distinctions between emotions) experience better treatment outcomes, faster symptom reduction, and improved emotional regulation. The interactive format of Feeling HQ's wheel makes this process engaging and accessible for clients of all ages and backgrounds.
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