When someone is preparing for therapy, recovery work or a personal change plan, naming their own strengths can be surprisingly difficult. This printable personal strengths worksheet gives adults and older teenagers a simple CBT-style exercise for identifying personal skills, positive qualities and supportive resources that may help with confidence, resilience and problem solving.
Greater clarity about strengths and personal resources is the main support offered here, especially for people who find it easier to notice problems than abilities. The exercise asks the user to think about what they see in themselves and what other people recognise in them, making it useful for self-esteem work, CBT homework, counselling sessions and wellbeing reviews.
The page contains a brief explanation followed by a large two-column table. One column is headed “Personal Skills / Qualities I Can Acknowledge in Myself”, and the other is headed “Skills / Qualities That Other People Recognise in Me”. This structure helps separate private self-belief from feedback, compliments or observations received from others.
Adults, older teens, therapy clients, coaches and mental health practitioners may use it as a strengths list, personal resources worksheet, confidence-building activity or recovery planning prompt. It could be completed at home before a session, filled in during CBT or counselling, or revisited when preparing for a difficult situation, goal or behaviour change.
The format is deliberately open, so entries can include qualities such as persistence, kindness, organisation, humour, courage, creativity, reliability or problem-solving. It also invites reflection on social evidence, which can be helpful when low mood, anxiety or self-criticism makes personal strengths feel less believable.
