Embracing Our Fragmented Selves Free Trauma Worksheet
Download free sample worksheets drawn from internationally renowned trauma expert Dr. Janina Fisher's newest workbook, grounded in parts work, structural dissociation theory, and sensorimotor psychotherapy.
Printable parts work & trauma worksheets
Psychoeducation tools for complex trauma & dissociation
Worksheets for identifying & working with traumatized parts
Designed for clinical use and personal healing
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Free Worksheets for Parts Work & Trauma Recovery
These free printable PDF worksheets give trauma survivors and clinicians practical tools rooted in the same evidence-based framework as Dr. Fisher's full workbook, ready to use in session or at home.
Understanding Your Parts
Reflective worksheets that help clients identify their own traumatized and protector parts, translating confusing symptoms into expressions of the self's survival adaptations.
Parts Mapping & Identification
Visual and written tools for mapping the internal landscape of parts — including wounded young parts, protector parts, and the Adult Self — to build a working model of the inner world.
Unblending from Traumatized Parts
Step-by-step exercises for noticing when a part has taken over, and gently stepping back into the observing Adult Self, a core skill in structural dissociation work.
Trauma Symptom Psychoeducation
Non-shaming psychoeducation worksheets that reframe self-destructive behaviors and emotional reactivity as the behavior of traumatized or protector parts, replacing shame with curiosity.
Befriending & Working with Parts
Exercises for building a compassionate internal relationship with even the most extreme or wounded parts, the foundation of lasting trauma recovery and inner harmony.
Journal Prompts for Self-Reflection
Guided prompts designed to deepen insight between sessions, support emotional regulation, and help clients access self-compassion at their own pace.
Get A Workbook for Trauma Survivors and Therapists
Whether you’re a trauma survivor or therapist, the book Embracing Our Fragmented Selves serves as a reminder that every part of us, no matter how wounded or extreme, is deserving of care. Healing begins when we meet those parts with support, appreciation, and acceptance.
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Free Parts Work & Trauma Worksheets from Dr. Janina Fisher
Finding high-quality, free trauma worksheets grounded in parts work and structural dissociation theory is rare. That's why PESI Publishing created this free PDF download — practical, printable worksheets excerpted directly from Dr. Janina Fisher's Embracing Our Fragmented Selves: A Workbook for Trauma Survivors and Therapists.
What Is Parts Work in Trauma Therapy?
Parts work is a trauma treatment approach based on the understanding that trauma fragments the self, leaving behind distinct parts that carry the emotional imprints of difficult experiences. Rather than pathologizing these parts, the angry part, the numb part, the frightened young part, parts work teaches clients and therapists to approach each one with curiosity and compassion. Dr. Fisher's approach draws on structural dissociation theory alongside Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy-adjacent concepts, making it accessible to clinicians across a wide range of orientations.
What Is Structural Dissociation?
Structural dissociation theory, developed by van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Steele, describes how chronic trauma — especially early developmental trauma — creates a split between apparently normal parts (ANPs) that manage daily functioning, and emotional parts (EPs) that hold traumatic memory and defensive responses. Dr. Fisher's worksheets make this complex theory clinically practical, helping both therapists and trauma survivors understand symptoms through a non-pathologizing, parts-informed lens.
How Therapists Use These Worksheets
These free trauma worksheets are designed for immediate clinical use. Trauma therapists, licensed counselors, psychologists, social workers, and IFS practitioners can use them in individual sessions to help clients map their parts, practice unblending, and build the Adult Self capacity necessary for deeper trauma work. They're equally effective as take-home tools to extend the therapeutic work between sessions.
For Trauma Survivors Doing Their Own Work
While clinically grounded, these worksheets are written in language accessible to trauma survivors working independently. Whether you're using them alongside therapy or as a complement to your own healing journey, they offer structured, compassionate entry points into understanding your inner world, without requiring specialized training to benefit from them.
Get the Full Workbook
This free PDF is a sample from the complete Embracing Our Fragmented Selves Workbook, available in paperback from PESI Publishing. The full 120-page workbook includes step-by-step worksheets, psychoeducation, journal prompts, and clinical guidance for every stage of parts work, from initial parts identification through to reparative healing experiences for wounded young parts.
Download Your Free Trauma Worksheets
Parts work tools, psychoeducation handouts, and reflective exercises from Dr. Janina Fisher's Embracing Our Fragmented Selves — ready to use in session or at home today.
Who This Resource Serves
For Therapists and Trauma Survivors Alike
These free trauma worksheets are designed to be clinically rigorous and personally accessible — useful whether you're a practitioner supporting clients or an individual on your own healing path.
Trauma Therapists
For use in individual and group trauma therapy
Trauma Survivors
Self-guided tools for personal healing work
Clinical Social Workers
Evidence-based handouts for complex presentations
IFS Practitioners
Parts work tools for trauma-adapted IFS Therapy practice
Psychologists
Supplement CBT/somatic work with parts frameworks
Counselors & LMFTs
Practical handouts for complex PTSD & dissociation