DBT Wise Mind Worksheet

Balance emotion and logic to make clearer decisions using this DBT-based Wise Mind worksheet grounded in evidence-based skills.

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When to Use This Tool

A client makes decisions from pure emotion or pure logic and misses what the other side knows

Someone learning to locate the overlap between reasonable mind and emotional mind

Building a daily practice of pausing to access wise mind before responding

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On this decision — or in this situation — which part of you is driving most: the...

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Tool Classification

Domain

Wellness

Type

Worksheet

Phase

Discovery Action

Details

30 min Mid session As-needed

Topics

Emotions Mindset

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1 Analytical executive who dismisses emotional data in consequential decisions

Context

A CFO makes major decisions through pure analysis and consistently reaches conclusions that are technically correct but produce unexpected human consequences — people resign, teams destabilize, relationships break. He describes emotion as noise and is genuinely puzzled when the numbers-right outcome fails.

How to Introduce

Lead with the Reasonable Mind column and let him complete it fully before asking about Emotional Mind. 'Fill the left co...

2 Client paralyzed by emotion in a decision that requires action 🔒

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