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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hot Headed: A Game to Calm Anger
One of the most common presenting problems I see is anger outbursts in children. Most adults can agree that it's hard to keep your cool...
Tasha Milligan
Dec 15, 20223 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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Dino Stories - A Story Telling Game
Your little dinosaur-loving kiddos will love this interactive, playful game. They will get to act like a dinosaur, give their best roar,...
Tasha Milligan
Oct 2, 20222 min read
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Let's Go Fishing Game Review: How to Use It In Therapy
Let's Go Fishing is an expensive, accessible game that is great for young kids. It helps with patience, regulation, and self-control. I...
Tasha Milligan
Sep 26, 20221 min read
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Breathing Activities for Calming Emotions
Slow deep breathing is an essential coping skill, as it turns off the fight or flight response. It can be done anywhere and in any...
Tasha Milligan
Aug 12, 20223 min read
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New Telehealth Option: Andy's Anger Explosions
Andy's Anger Explosions is now available for telehealth. It comes via Google Slides with the book at the beginning, then the game to...
Tasha Milligan
Jul 25, 20222 min read
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Connect 4 Launchers Game Review and How to Use it in Therapy
Connect 4 Launchers is an action-packed game. It moves at a fast pace and can generate a lot of excitement as well as other big emotions....
Tasha Milligan
Jul 3, 20222 min read
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Anger Games: Counseling Interventions for Anger
I get calls all the time from distressed parents with children who have anger outbursts. I have put together a large collection of anger...
Tasha Milligan
Jun 3, 20225 min read
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Andy's Anger Explosions: A Book and Game Combo
Andy’s Anger Eruptions is a story and game about a boy with explosive anger. He flies off the handle quickly, and then feels out of...
Tasha Milligan
Feb 26, 20222 min read
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