Agoraphobia Recovery Workbook | A Wider World | Therapist-Written Panic, Anxiety and Gradual Exposure Tools | Printable PDF

Fear can make ordinary places feel complicated: a store aisle, crowded line, waiting room, road, open space, appointment, or simply being away from home. This therapist-written digital workbook helps adults understand the pattern, steady the alarm, plan manageable practice, and return gently after hard days.

This is a substantial 60-page book-and-workbook experience—not a generic prompt packet. Clear psychoeducation comes before the exercises, with worked fictional examples, safety-aware planning, and practical tools that can be adapted to your actual starting point.

INSIDE THE WORKBOOK

• Plain-language education about agoraphobia, panic, escape fear, avoidance, and short-term relief
• The fear-avoidance-relief and fear-of-fear cycles
• Body-alarm, trigger, prediction, and safety-behavior reflections
• The signature My Widening Radius Map
• A 60-second Pause, Orient, and Choose practice
• Grounded coping statements and fictional worked examples
• Voluntary, values-linked gradual-practice planning—never flooding or forced bravery
• A flexible fear ladder, practice planner, and prediction-practice-learning review
• Real-place support for stores, lines, transportation, appointments, open spaces, and time away from home
• Guidance for support people and safe-person patterns
• Setback and return planning
• The 20-item Agoraphobia Support Pattern Quiz with four domain scores, interpretation, matched workbook pages, and next steps

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

• 1 full-color PDF — 60 pages
• 1 purpose-designed low-ink PDF — 60 pages
• US Letter size, 8.5 × 11 inches
• Identical content and page numbering in both editions
• Instant digital delivery; no physical item will be mailed

WHO IT IS FOR

Adults whose lives have narrowed around fear, panic sensations, escape concerns, distance from home, or the need for certainty or companionship. It may also be useful alongside qualified therapy when your clinician agrees.

HOW TO USE IT

Read on a phone, tablet, or computer, or print the whole workbook or selected pages. Move in order or begin where today’s need is loudest. Reading and noticing count; writing is optional.

IMPORTANT

This is an educational self-help resource for adults. It is not psychotherapy, diagnosis, crisis care, medical advice, a cure promise, or a substitute for individualized care. Practice is voluntary. Use only legal, physically safe, accessible settings; keep necessary medical, disability, mobility, access, and ordinary safety support. Seek qualified guidance whenever health, trauma, substance use, severe isolation, crisis risk, or safe practice is unclear.

PERSONAL-USE LICENSE

The original purchaser may print this resource for personal use. An individual clinician may print copies reasonably needed for that clinician’s own clients or personally facilitated groups; each clinician needs a separate license. Digital files may not be shared, posted, resold, redistributed, rebranded, or altered for resale.

Created by Caroline Aaron, MSW, LICSW
Peppie & Bean Therapy Tools