Pathways to Peace 

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.

Enjoy these creative dress-up ideas for play therapy. Kids can engage in creative play to overcome stuck points and feel empowered.

If I Were a Superhero is a book and game to help children process big emotions, behaviors, and traumas.

Get inspired by these creative ideas for traveling therapists. Includes storage, sensory ideas, and games.

A list of inexpensive holiday-themed counseling games.

This is a book and game to help children heal from wounds by acknowledging the pain, forgiving, and releasing the situation.

Summer is here and siblings are driving each other nuts! This short book and game can help stop the bickering by helping kids recognize...

Fly High is a CBT game to help children grow in resilience to overcome life's adversities.

Nosey Rosie is a book and game for social skills for children. It teaches healthy boundaries to avoid being bossy and intrusive.

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...

Persnickety Polly is a short book and a game about perfectionism. Polly likes to have everything planned and perfect. However, one day...

Campfire Stories is a light-hearted story telling game. It is intended to help children work on communication skills, think through...

Sometimes you need a counseling game for a specific issue. This article offers games that target behavior problems to help kids become...

Riding Life’s Emotional Waves is a CBT game for teens who struggle with big emotions, including anger, anxiety, and depression. It helps...

New You in the New Year is a solutions-focused, goal-setting game for children. This counseling game was designed to help children...

Check out these creative ways to use Inside Out characters in play therapy, including free games, printables, crafts, dress up, and play.

Enjoy these free and low-cost games to help children understand feelings and process emotions in play therapy.

Thought Crashers is one of my original CBT games, full of basic CBT skills to help kids challenge thoughts, replace them with good thoughts.

This is a list of affordable and free cognitive behavioral (CBT) counseling games to use in play therapy.

Tony's Silence is a short book and game to help children cope with selective mutism. It is both educational and a counseling tool.