Increase client engagement and rapport with these fun additions to sessions! So many ways you can use them, so be creative!
Excellent game for practicing recall of any topic! My go-to's are I statements, authoritative communication, coping skills, and positive affirmations! Can be timed or untimed to prevent stress, and comes with cards of casual topic options too.
The Original Tapple® - The Op Games
Great way to get to know someone, or see how well others know you! I often draw a couple cards to use as an icebreaker activity.
HOT SEAT Party Game - The Family Card Game
Great joining and rapport building activity to get to know each other! I often don’t use the point system and families love it!
Spin Master If You Know You Know IYKYK Card Game
I LOVE that it is players versus the game, not each other! Great for those competitive families and to learn more about values and motivations!
Priorities Game | Ages 14+ | 2+ Players
Great game for teaching about communication, perspective, and misunderstandings!
Telestrations 8 Player 2nd Edition Board Game
Fun for seeing associations and similarities or differences in thinking! Can also highlight patterns of thoughts.
USAOPOLY BLANK SLATE, Where Great Minds Think
So easy to add prompts for numbers or colors! Great for get-to-know-you, anger management, coping skills, or other prompts.
Mattel Games: Uno - Amazon.com
Another great game to add prompts to! Pull and share, and if the tower tumbles practice some coping skills!
Wild Wobble! Wooden Tumbling Tower - Mudpuppy
Emotions charades is great to play with families and see how they express or view feelings!
Play Charades
Great game for communication and being intentional/thoughtful with words!
CGE Codenames Board Game 2nd Edition
Another good communication focused game that encourages imagination!
Asmodee Dixit Board Game - Award-Winning Storytelling
Add numbers on the bottom of the fish or have prompts categorized by colors!
The Original Fast-Action Fishing Game! 1-4 Players
Relaxed yet fun relationship building game!
Do You Really Know Your Family? Fun Family Card Game
Great activity for impulse control and practicing self-control, highlighting impact of actions that often go unnoticed!
Don't Break the Ice Family Game for Kids Ages 3
Practice making a three part apology acknowledging what happened, showing empathy, and making a plan!
Sorry! Board Game for Kids & Adults
Great way to practice working through unexpected setbacks after working hard at something and almost getting there. Apply to specific scenarios they encounter!
Chutes and Ladders Bluey Edition Kids Board Game
Have a therapeutic prompt for each color! Examples: getting through something overwhelming, something working towards, something you feel stuck in currently and what might help, something that looks fun or easy but it’s actually more difficult, somet...
