A way to map the window — together, in the room.
The Window of Tolerance Map is now available to free members — a clinician-facilitated mapping tool
This month's tool is the Window of Tolerance Map, and it's now available to free members. It's a clinical mapping tool you build with a client: you map their hyperarousal, hypoarousal, and regulated zones together, and they leave with a version they can look at and use between sessions.
It's built to be facilitated, not used alone — the clinician side is a builder, the client side is a viewer with a Coping Mode and a PDF printout to take home. No accounts, no server storage.
Window of Tolerance Map + Companion Resources
A clinical mapping tool you build with clients in session, a facilitation guide for the clinicians introducing it, and two companion resources wired into the tool for grounding and quick reference.
Window of Tolerance Map
Interactive Web Tool · Clinician-Facilitated · No Login Required
A clinical mapping tool you facilitate with a client. The clinician side is a builder — you map the client's hyperarousal, hypoarousal, and regulated zones together, naming what each one looks and feels like for them. The client side is a viewer they take away: their own map, a Coping Mode they can turn to between sessions, and a PDF printout to keep or mark up by hand. Grounded in a nervous-system / Window of Tolerance framework (Siegel, Ogden). Built to be facilitated, not used alone — pair it with the clinician guide. No accounts, no server storage.
Open the Tool →Window of Tolerance Clinician Guide
Download · PDF · For Facilitating Clinicians
The facilitation companion. When to introduce the map, sample language for walking a client through it, how to use the zones in session, and when the tool isn't the right fit. Read this first if the map is new to you.
Download Guide ↓Wired into the tool: two companion resources
Download · PDF · Linked from inside the Map
The map links out to two resources you may already know — the Containment Quick Reference Card and the Brief Trauma Intervention guide. Both are wired into the tool so they're a click away when a client needs grounding or you need a quick reference mid-session.
Not a Member yet? Member access unlocks the full clinical resource library, monthly content drops, interactive learning boards, and a 20% shop discount.
See membership optionsThe Window of Tolerance Map is a clinical mapping tool, facilitated by a clinician. It isn't an assessment, a screener, or a substitute for clinical judgment. Use the clinician guide for context on when it fits and when it doesn't. Crisis resources appear throughout the tool: 988, Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and findahelpline.com.