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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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How to Use Dino Meal Game in Play Therapy
Dino Meal is an exciting, engaging game to help children face fears and overcome stuck points.
Tasha Milligan
Jan 302 min read
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The Breakup Book and Game
The Breakup is a book and game to help tweens and teens process the loss of a relationship and to help establish healthy boundaries within r
Tasha Milligan
Oct 11, 20244 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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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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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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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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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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Why Play Games in Therapy?
Games are powerful tools when working with children. There are so many ways that children can learn and grow through play, including...
Tasha Milligan
Jun 22, 20235 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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Play Therapy Ideas for Somatic Symptoms
Somatic symptoms can be difficult to treat because kids often lack awareness of how their symptoms are related to their emotions. Play is...
Tasha Milligan
Mar 18, 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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Round-Up of Zones of Regulation Activities and Materials
Over the past few years, many resources for the Zones of Regulation have popped up. The zones help kids become aware of the levels of...
Tasha Milligan
Feb 26, 20232 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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Coping Skill Toolbox Ideas
Learn how to put together coping skill toolboxes to help children be prepared when they get upset and lose control of their emotions.
Tasha Milligan
Feb 4, 20235 min read
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Coping Skill Flashcards
Coping skill flashcards are helpful to help kids remember what to do in the heat of the moment when they need help calming down. When...
Tasha Milligan
Jan 13, 20232 min read
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