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Teddy's Leaky Bucket - A Book and Game About Healing Emotional Wounds
This is a book and game to help children heal from wounds by acknowledging the pain, forgiving, and releasing the situation.
Tasha Milligan
Feb 62 min read
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Mancala in Counseling: Define the Goal
Mancala can be used in therapy to help children become aware of goal setting and staying on track. This article highlights therapeutic goals
Tasha Milligan
Dec 28, 20242 min read
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Fly High: A Game About Resilience
Fly High is a CBT game to help children grow in resilience to overcome life's adversities.
Tasha Milligan
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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Nosey Rosie: A Social Skills Book and Game
Nosey Rosie is a book and game for social skills for children. It teaches healthy boundaries to avoid being bossy and intrusive.
Tasha Milligan
Mar 18, 20244 min read
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Counseling Games for Behavior Problems
Sometimes you need a counseling game for a specific issue. This article offers games that target behavior problems to help kids become...
Tasha Milligan
Jan 28, 20245 min read
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Submerged: A Game About Buried Emotions
Submerged is a counseling game to help children identify emotions that are buried under the surface.
Tasha Milligan
Sep 23, 20232 min read
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Putting a Stop to Stealing - A CBT Game for Children
Putting a Stop to Stealing is a CBT game to help children stop stealing.
Tasha Milligan
Aug 15, 20233 min read
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Grumpy Bear: A Mood Boosting Game
Grumpy Bear is a game to help children overcome a negative mindset and grumpy mood to gain control over their emotions and behaviors....
Tasha Milligan
Jul 28, 20231 min read
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Level Up: A Game About Winning at Life
Level Up is a video game themed game to help kids learn how to overcome life's challenges and to win at life. The metaphor helps kids...
Tasha Milligan
Jul 21, 20232 min read
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Battle in My Brain: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Game
The Battle in My Brain incorporates CBT skills to help children with intrusive thoughts, temptations, guilt, and issues with anger ,...
Tasha Milligan
Jul 15, 20233 min read
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Let's Build Something: A Lego-Themed Game
Do you know kids who love Lego? This game might be a great fit! This is a counseling game full of Lego goodness such as discussing...
Tasha Milligan
Jul 14, 20233 min read
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Emma's Emotional Discovery - A Book and Game to Understand Emotions
Emma's Emotional Discovery is a short story and a game to help children better understand their emotions. It helps children understand...
Tasha Milligan
Jun 14, 20232 min read
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Creative Ways to Use Cars in Play Therapy
Many kids love to play with toy cars. However, as a counselor, it is important to know how to bring therapeutic value to the session when...
Tasha Milligan
Apr 7, 20233 min read
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Counseling Interventions to Teach Coping Skills / Emotional Regulation
Introducing coping skills to manage emotions is a good starting point in counseling. It allows time to develop healthy rapport and...
Tasha Milligan
Mar 10, 20234 min read
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DIY Fidget Toy Round-Up
Fidget toys are great to include in a coping skill toolbox for kids who need help coping with anxiety, anger, and ADHD.
Tasha Milligan
Feb 7, 20233 min read
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Free Angry Birds Card Game!
Angry Birds Truth Bomb is a free PDF download game to help kids challenge negative self-talk by using cognitive behavioral therapy...
Tasha Milligan
Dec 10, 20222 min read
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Play Interventions for Anger
This is a round-up of interventions I found online for anger. This post includes craft activities, scripts, toys, games, and videos to...
Tasha Milligan
Dec 1, 20224 min read
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Counseling Interventions to Teach About the Brain
There are some amazing resources available to help children understand the brain and how it works. This is a round-up of some of the best...
Tasha Milligan
Nov 22, 20224 min read
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Playdough Therapy Ideas
Playdough is an inexpensive tool to use in therapy that has unlimited uses. It is a staple in the coping skill toolboxes that I make...
Tasha Milligan
Oct 20, 20229 min read
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Using the Mouse Trap Game in Therapy
Mouse Trap is a super fun, interactive game that offers many benefits for counseling. Kids will need to use communication skills, impulse...
Tasha Milligan
Oct 15, 20222 min read
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