I-statements practice

Couples work, family conflict, workplace conflict, and any client whose communication defaults to blame, sarcasm, or silence. Particularly useful for clients who say “I’ve told them a hundred times” but on closer inspection have only delivered you-statements or complaints.

The form is a single repeating block, at least 1 row, with 6 sub-fields per row.

A clinical note worth holding: statements that look like I-statements but are still accusations in disguise (“I feel like you don’t care”). The structure here forces them out into a real first-person frame. If the client can’t fill in “I really want,” the underlying issue is often that they don’t know what they want, and the conversation needs to go there first.

In my-cbt, this is one of the bundled system templates. You preview, customise, and assign it from the case file in two clicks. Submissions save to the file with a timestamp. The repeating sections expand on screen instead of running out of room in a margin.