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Tasha Milligan
Oct 11, 20244 min read
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
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Tasha Milligan
Apr 18, 20242 min read
Fly High: A Game About Resilience
Fly High is a CBT game to help children grow in resilience to overcome life's adversities.
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Tasha Milligan
Mar 15, 20242 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Feb 15, 20244 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Feb 15, 20242 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Jan 16, 20242 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Nov 15, 20232 min read
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.
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Tasha Milligan
Sep 23, 20232 min read
Submerged: A Game About Buried Emotions
Submerged is a counseling game to help children identify emotions that are buried under the surface.
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Tasha Milligan
Jul 28, 20231 min read
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....
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Tasha Milligan
Jul 15, 20233 min read
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,...
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Tasha Milligan
Jun 22, 20235 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Jun 14, 20232 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Mar 18, 20233 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Mar 10, 20233 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Feb 26, 20232 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Feb 7, 20233 min read
DIY Fidget Toy Round-Up
Fidget toys can be helpful for kids with big emotions, but can be expensive, especially if you are trying to equip a full caseload of...
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Tasha Milligan
Feb 4, 20235 min read
Coping Skill Toolbox Ideas
Coping skill toolboxes are handy to have available for when kids have big emotions and need help calming down. Each item is specifically...
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Tasha Milligan
Jan 13, 20232 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Dec 15, 20223 min read
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...
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Tasha Milligan
Dec 10, 20222 min read
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...
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