Play Therapy Tools
Some of our Favorites
Story Chips
Great for:
- Building Rapport & Engagement
Participants choose the chips that coordinate with their story. Each story is unique as we explore their personal experiences.
Also, individuals can purchase blank ones and have your clients create their own symbols and stories
Bone & Stick Game
Great for:
- Self regulation
- Challenge and mastery
Music Shakers
Great for
- non directive play therapy
- regulating
Group of Six Coloring Book
We are grateful to have this resource and for the community willing to share their culture with us.
"The book was created with the intention to celebrate the rich cultural teachings and values that we come from. Our ancestors protected these things for us, with the expectation that we would in turn protect these images, teeachings, and stories for the faces to come."
- Group of Six Artists
Sensory Rocking Chair
Great for:
Regulating
The Emotionary
The Emotionary
by: Eden Sher
A dictionary of words that don't exist for feelings that do
The Brain Storm
By: Linda Ragsdale
This wordless picture book is a thought-provoking exploration of disruptive feelings. Readers may interpret these as anger, anxiety, or even a creative brain storm.
Follow along as a mood pesters a young boy and ends up rubbing off on all those around him. After a frustrating day under his version of a little dark cloud, he discovers that ultimately working through your feelings and emotions begins with you. The wordless pages inspire readers to "read" the story as they apply their own interpretations to the young boy's plight.
Miniatures
Great For:
- Identifying Parts and Experiences of Parts
- Emotional Expression
Cake Toppers Dolls Bride and Groom Figurines Funny Wedding - Etsy Canada
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Implicit Miniatures
Polyvagal Card Deck
Great for:
- Self regulation
These informational cards enable clients to enhance a broad understanding of their nervous system as well as help clinicians to guide them through a process of tuning in.
The cards have been thoughtfully created to provide polyvagal concepts and prompts grouped into three areas: 1) the autonomic hierarchy: ventral, sympathetic, and dorsal; 2) a section about regulating the system; and 3) a bonus section exploring play, stillness, and change.
Clinicians can use the cards at the beginning of a session to frame the work or at the end to create a plan for ongoing work; clients can reach for the cards any time they want some nervous system support.
Playmobile Rescue Vehicles
Great for
- non directive play therapy
- storytelling
Styrofoam Swords
Great for
- non directive play therapy
- dyadic work (caregiver/child) to build competance, mastery and sense of self.
Moody Cow Meditates
by: Kerry Lee Mclean
Children can develop greater joy and concentration through the practices of mindfulness and meditation, and Moody Cow Meditates is the perfect way to introduce them. This vibrant and funny children's book is a playful way to introduce children to the power of meditation
TEACH YOUR CHILD TO COREGULATE by
sitting with them and talking about their big feelings, while doing a mindfulness activity to help them stay regulated and watch as the storm within calms with your connection to them.
Books by Margot Sunderland
A Wibble Called Bipley is story for children who have hardened their hearts or become bullies.
Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but someone has broken his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides it is just too painful to ever love again. When he meets some big tough Honks in the wood, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn't have to feel hurt any more. Luckily Bipley meets some creatures who teach him how he can protect himself without hardening his heart.
Moody Cow Learns Compassion
By: Kerry Lee Mclean
This delightful sequel to Moody Cow Meditates reintroduces us to Peter (aka Moody Cow) and meet his mischievous "boys-will-be-boys" friend Bully. Along the way we meet a snake named Jaws, who also goes on to appear in Peter's terrifying dreams, and watch as Bully revels in the deaths of the crickets he feeds the snake. Peter is uncomfortable with the plight of the little creatures, earning him a new nickname: "Coward Cow" because Bully thinks he's a wimp. Once again, Grandfather, the beloved old steer from Moody Cow Meditates, brings serenity and long-horned wisdom as he gently teaches to compassionately identify with other beings. And the story ends with everyone sharing a laugh - and even Jaws and the crickets are happy.
This book also includes two activities - compassionate cricket release and compassionate worm rescue - for parents and children to do together.
Online / Virtual Sessions
Cost is $160 / session. Most insurances accept MSW or RP's
(we do not want any family to go without needed support, please contact us if cost is an issue)