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Creative Weather-Related Play Therapy Interventions
Weather-related natural diasters can lead to deep anxiety and worries for children. This post is full of creative weather-related play therapy interventions and activities to help children process worries and trauma.
Tasha Milligan
Jun 124 min read
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Creative Dress-Up Ideas for Play Therapy
Enjoy these creative dress-up ideas for play therapy. Kids can engage in creative play to overcome stuck points and feel empowered.
Tasha Milligan
May 164 min read
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If I Were a Superhero Book and Game
If I Were a Superhero is a book and game to help children process big emotions, behaviors, and traumas.
Tasha Milligan
Apr 24 min read
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Creative Ideas for Traveling Play Therapists
Get inspired by these creative ideas for traveling therapists. Includes storage, sensory ideas, and games.
Tasha Milligan
Mar 105 min read
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Holiday Themed Therapy Games
A list of inexpensive holiday-themed counseling games.
Tasha Milligan
Feb 274 min read
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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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The Crazy Train: A Book and Game for Conflict Resolution
Summer is here and siblings are driving each other nuts! This short book and game can help stop the bickering by helping kids recognize...
Tasha Milligan
May 15, 20243 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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Color Your World – An Art-Themed CBT Game
Your life is a blank canvas and you are the artist. What will you fill it with? This is the metaphor behind Color Your World. Children...
Tasha Milligan
Mar 15, 20242 min read
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Persnickety Polly: A Book and Game for Perfectionism
Persnickety Polly is a short book and a game about perfectionism. Polly likes to have everything planned and perfect. However, one day...
Tasha Milligan
Feb 15, 20244 min read
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Campfire Stories: A Story Telling Game
Campfire Stories is a light-hearted story telling game. It is intended to help children work on communication skills, think through...
Tasha Milligan
Feb 15, 20242 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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Riding Life's Emotional Waves: A CBT Game for Teens
Riding Life’s Emotional Waves is a CBT game for teens who struggle with big emotions, including anger, anxiety, and depression. It helps...
Tasha Milligan
Jan 16, 20242 min read
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New You in the New Year: A Goal Setting Game
New You in the New Year is a solutions-focused, goal-setting game for children. This counseling game was designed to help children...
Tasha Milligan
Dec 27, 20232 min read
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Creative Ways to Use Inside Out Characters in Play Therapy
Check out these creative ways to use Inside Out characters in play therapy, including free games, printables, crafts, dress up, and play.
Tasha Milligan
Dec 9, 20237 min read
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Counseling Games for Processing Emotions
Enjoy these free and low-cost games to help children understand feelings and process emotions in play therapy.
Tasha Milligan
Nov 28, 20235 min read
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Thought Crashers - A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Game
Thought Crashers is one of my original CBT games, full of basic CBT skills to help kids challenge thoughts, replace them with good thoughts.
Tasha Milligan
Nov 15, 20232 min read
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Games
This is a list of affordable and free cognitive behavioral (CBT) counseling games to use in play therapy.
Tasha Milligan
Oct 28, 20237 min read
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Tony's Silence: A Book and Game about Selective Mutism
Tony's Silence is a short book and game to help children cope with selective mutism. It is both educational and a counseling tool.
Tasha Milligan
Oct 27, 20234 min read
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