Planning Your Recovery – Part A

This worksheet is designed to guide individuals through evaluating their progress in recovery and setting clear, actionable goals for the future. It emphasizes the importance of identifying areas where they feel both satisfied and dissatisfied in different aspects of their recovery journey, such as motivation for long-term sobriety, treatment efforts, psychiatric care, legal issues, social life, and personal relationships. Clients are encouraged to reflect on their goals, determine areas for improvement, and create a plan to strengthen their recovery. The worksheet also includes a satisfaction rating system to help individuals track their progress and prioritize what needs attention. This tool can be a helpful part of ongoing recovery planning, providing structure and clarity to the process.

Written by clinical psychologist Dr. Hal Baumchen, PsyD, LP, LADC, this printable PDF worksheet gives clinicians a practical, session-ready tool. The conversational, encouraging tone makes clinical concepts accessible to clients at any stage of recovery, while structured prompts keep the work focused and productive.

How clinicians use it: as an in-session exercise to open and structure discussion, as between-session homework to reinforce skills, as a progress tool to track growth over time, and as part of a treatment unit paired with the companion lesson and PowerPoint on this topic. Formatted for easy printing and immediate use in individual or group settings.