Purpose 🎯🔋

Help clients identify natural energy patterns and work with them rather than against them.

Let’s Talk About It 🗣️

Draw a battery and ask:

• When does your battery feel full?
• When do you usually crash?
• When are you most productive?
• When does focusing become difficult?

Discuss how daily responsibilities might better match these energy patterns.

If the Conversation Gets Stuck 💡

• Think about yesterday.
• When did you feel most alert?
• When did everything start feeling harder?

Telehealth / Whiteboard Version 🔋

Draw a battery divided into four sections (morning, afternoon, evening, night). Invite the client to place different activities where they typically have enough energy to complete them.

Why This Works 🌱

Rather than expecting constant productivity, clients learn to schedule demanding tasks during periods of higher energy.

Clinical Pearl 🧠

Energy is not laziness. Helping clients understand this distinction often reduces self-criticism.

Documentation Language 📝

Therapist assisted patient in identifying daily energy patterns and collaborated on behavioral strategies to improve functioning by aligning responsibilities with periods of increased energy.

Clinical Focus: Energy Awareness, Behavioral Planning, Self Regulation