Free therapy games and tools
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EMDR Bilateral Stimulation Tool
A moving dot, light bar, two lights, tones or phone vibration for EMDR sets. Send a client link: their screen shows only the stimulus while you control speed, path, sound and sets, and note SUD and VoC between sets.
Butterfly Hug Guide
Tap along with two softly lighting circles, slow and steady. Rate how upset you feel before and after, and see the change.
Breathing Exercises
Eight guided patterns in one place: box, 4-7-8 and triangle for adults; rainbow, bubbles, star, balloon and lazy 8 for kids.
4-7-8 Breathing Exercise
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, out for 8, guided by a growing and shrinking circle. Includes an easier pace for first tries.
Rainbow Breathing
Breathe in along one color of the rainbow and out along the next. Or trace a star, fill a balloon, or ride the lazy 8.
Interactive Feelings Wheel
Pick a core feeling, zoom in, and move outward to the exact word. 7 core feelings, 93 words, big enough to read on a shared screen.
Feelings Check-In
Pick a face, rate how strong it is, tap where you feel it, then choose what might help. Or paint your feelings onto a body map.
Mood Check-In Grid
Tap where you are on a soft energy × pleasantness grid, then pick the exact word (a simpler kids word set is one tap away). Add more check-ins before you close the page to see how your mood moves.
5-4-3-2-1 Grounding
A step-by-step walk-through of the five senses, tap what you notice, or add your own words.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Press Start and close your eyes, or keep them softly open: a calm voice and soft tones guide you through tensing and releasing each muscle group while the body picture glows and softens.
Interactive Anger Iceberg
Anger sits on the tip. Tap the feelings hiding underneath and watch them sink into the iceberg and color it in. Ends in a picture to print or share.
Anger Thermometer
Tap each level of the thermometer, pick the body signs you notice and the step you'll take, and print your own anger plan.
Talk Tower
Pull a block, answer the question its color picks, and stack it on top. Kids and teen question sets; the tower wobbles, then falls.
Coping Skills Bingo
Random bingo cards of coping skills or feelings, with a school-safe set. Called squares turn gold; tap to mark one and say when you used it and how much it helped.
Therapy Question Cards
A kids' deck and a teen deck of feelings, family, school and coping questions. Draw from one pile or mix them, and keep the cards worth coming back to.
Group Therapy Icebreakers
Question cards that run a group in order, warm-up to closing, plus a would-you-rather round with a live tally and a summary at the end.
Couples Question Cards
40 questions to know each other, say thanks, repair after conflict and dream together. Draw from one pile and keep the ones worth bringing to session.
Coping Skills Spin Wheel
Spin a ready wheel of coping skills (or tap Edit my wheel to use your own), practice for a minute and rate it. Ends with a ranked list you can print.
Values Card Sort
Sort 40 value cards into three piles, pick your top five, rate how much you live each one now, and end with a printable values card.
Strengths Card Sort
Sort 24 character strengths, pick the five most like you, rate how often you use them and plan one new way to use a strength. Ends in a printable strengths card. Not the VIA Survey.
Thinking Traps Game
Read a thought, spot the thinking trap and see a more balanced version. Eight rounds from 26 thoughts, then catch one of your own and keep it as a printable card.
Fear Ladder Builder
List feared situations and rate each one (SUDS 0–100, or 0–10 with a climber and brave points for kids): they sort into a ladder, easiest at the bottom. Log each practice (before, highest, after, what you learned) and print the ladder as a plan.
Virtual Sand Tray
Build a world in a calm virtual sand tray: 300+ figures with skin tones, drag, turn and resize, draw or add water, bury figures, then make a picture for your notes.
Genogram Maker
Build a family genogram with McGoldrick symbols: parents, siblings, partners (remarriage, same-sex couples), twins, adoption and foster care, pregnancies and losses, gender-diverse family members, and 10 kinds of relationship line. Save a picture with its own symbol key.
Life Timeline Builder
Plot life events by age, above the line for good times and below for hard ones, with a short label and what helped. End with a picture of your timeline to save or print it for your therapist.
Radical Acceptance Practice
Name what you're fighting, rate the tension, pick words of acceptance and let your body soften. Ends in a printable acceptance card.
Urge Surfing
Rate the urge, then ride a watercolor wave as it rises, crests and passes. Ends with a chart of your ratings.
Leaves on a Stream
Type a thought and watch it float away on a leaf down a painted stream. Also clouds, a thought train, bubbles and waves. Notice thoughts without getting hooked.
TIPP Skill
Rate your distress, then one calm step at a time: a big guided timer for temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing or paired muscle relaxation.
Emotion Charades
Act out a secret feeling card in 60 seconds while the other player guesses. 1:1 or two teams, in the room or on video, with a winner and a debrief at the end.
Virtual Calming Room
A calm room kids can open when feelings run big, after practicing it with a grown-up: check in with a feeling, breathe, squeeze, watch glitter settle, hear kind words or play soft music, then show a grown-up how it went.
Window of Tolerance Check-In
Drag the marker to where you are, try a matching skill for a minute, then check again and see what changed.
Hand Model of the Brain
Tap the hand to find the four brain parts, swipe the fingers up to flip the lid, close it again and make a lid plan.
Safety Plan Builder
Build a crisis safety plan step by step, on your own, with someone you trust or with your clinician. Read it back as one page, then copy it to your phone or print it.
Core Beliefs Downward Arrow
Follow a thought down, step by step, to the belief underneath. Then write a fairer belief and print an evidence log for the week.
Behavioral Activation Planner
Pick what matters to you, choose small activities that fit, plan the week, then rate each one after. Paste last week's copy back in to carry on.
Thought Record
Work through a 7-column thought record step by step. Rate your feelings at the start, then re-rate them at the end to see what changed.
Cognitive Reframing Practice
Spot the balanced reframe among look-alike options in five sample thoughts, then reframe a thought of your own and save it.
Readiness Ruler
Tap or drag importance and confidence rulers (0–10) and get motivational interviewing questions that follow the answer.
Virtual Worry Stone
Rub a smooth watercolor stone back and forth. It warms and glows while a slow ring helps you breathe.
Calm-Down Glitter Jar
Shake the glitter jar, drop in a feeling, then breathe slowly while everything swirls and settles.
Squiggle Game
One player draws a squiggle, the other paints it into a picture with soft watercolor brushes, names it and tells its story. Then swap.
Bubble Breathing for Kids
Press and hold while you breathe out slowly to blow a big shimmering bubble. Too fast and it pops! Five big bubbles wins.
Mindful Watercolor Coloring
Tap a shape and watch a soft watercolor wash bloom into it. Three calm pictures to color slowly, then save your painting.
Group Circle: Check-In, Ball Toss & Closing Round
A shared circle for therapy groups: pass a talking piece for the check-in, flick a watercolor ball to warm up, and close with one word each.
Group Spectrogram (Sociometry Line)
Everyone drags a dot onto a shared line or floor to show where they stand, then all the dots appear at once. See the room's spread, then talk about it.
Partner Knowledge Questions: Guess & Reveal
One partner answers a question about themself in private, the other guesses, then you both reveal. You earn points for curiosity, not for being right.
Speaker–Listener Floor
A floor token on screen: only the holder speaks. The listener says back what they heard, and the floor only passes once the speaker says "Yes, that's it".
Couple Cycle Builder
Partners drag action, feeling and need chips into a shared loop ("when I…, underneath I feel…, I need…") and name their cycle together, so the pattern becomes the problem, not either of you.
Family Board & Sculpting
Place a watercolor figure for each person, turn it to show where they look, then move everyone to how you wish it were. Watch the change.
Ecomap & Circles of Closeness
Place the people, places and services around you, show which ties are strong, weak or stressful, then show how you'd like it to be.
Circle of Control
Drag each worry into the circle where it belongs. Inner worries get a next step; outer ones can gently float away.
ACT Matrix
Sort cards into the four squares of the ACT Matrix, link what shows up inside to what you do next, and commit to one toward move.
Relationship Pattern Board (CCRT)
Lay out a few relationship moments as wish, the other's response and your response. The themes that repeat across people light up.
Dream Map
Lay out the images from a dream and tag how each one feels, then, with your therapist, thread them to your waking life, your past and parts of you. Only you decide what it means.
Schema Mode Map
Place your child, critic and coping modes on a map, draw what switches on what, then look back on the week and watch your healthy adult grow.
Chair Work Stage
A virtual room of chairs for chair work. Sit in a chair, speak from it, switch seats. Empty chair, two-chair inner critic, role reversal and schema modes.
Passengers on the Bus
Drive your bus toward what matters while your thought-passengers shout. Stop to argue and you lose time. Keep driving and you get there, passengers and all.
Tug-of-War with the Monster
Hold to pull against the monster over a pit. The harder you pull, the harder it pulls. Drop the rope and your hands are free for what matters.
The Magic Shop
A shop that sells courage, calm and hope. The price is something of yours. Pick a jar, trade from your pockets until the scale balances, and leave with a receipt.
Problem Monster Maker
Turn a worry, a temper or a sneaky habit into a watercolor monster. Name it, spot its tricks, and watch it shrink every time you beat it. Ends with a certificate.
Anger Monster Maker
Turn a big temper into a watercolor monster. Name it, spot its tricks, and watch it shrink every time you beat it. Ends with a certificate.
Nightmare Rescripting Storyboard
Sketch a recurring nightmare in three simple panels, then redraw it with a new ending. Rehearse the new dream with a calm player and log your nights.
Lifeline: Stones and Flowers
Lay out a life along a rope: flowers for good times, stones for hard ones, candles for losses. Short labels only. Then step back and see it whole.
Two-Chair Inner Critic Dialogue
Speak as your inner critic from one chair, answer from the other, and rate how harsh the critic was after each turn. Notice whether the critic softens.
Therapy Board Games
Three classic board games where every color pulls a counseling question: feelings, family and friends, school, coping and just-for-fun.
Mental Health Quiz Show
A game-show board for groups: teams pick a category and points, answer psychoeducation questions, and learn something from every answer.
Size of the Problem
Sort everyday problems from tiny to huge, then pick a reaction that fits the size. A calm, visual social-emotional game.
Draw & Guess Feelings
One person secretly draws a feeling or coping skill on a timer, the others guess, then everyone shares when they've felt it.
Feelings Memory Game
Flip cards to find matching feelings faces. Every pair you find opens a short share question.
Guess the Feeling
Everyone has a secret feeling the others can see. Ask yes/no questions to work out yours, then share a time you felt it.
Coping Skills Escape Room
Escape five calm rooms by breathing, noticing, reframing thoughts, matching body clues and choosing your own calm tools.
Session Toolkit: Dice, Spinner & Token Jar
Shared dice (numbers or feelings faces), a prompt spinner you can edit, and a token jar that fills toward a goal. Everyone sees the same roll.
Breakup Reset
Four calm exercises for the hardest weeks: ride out the urge to text your ex, write a letter you never send, park looping thoughts until worry time, and sort why it ended from what you want next.
Doomscrolling Habit Reset
Scroll an endless, calm pretend feed. Gentle check-ins interrupt it, then you map your habit loop, choose a swap and add friction. Also: a reflection on time spent with AI chatbots.
Menopause Toolkit
Three calm tools for menopause: slow breathing through a hot flash, CBT thought cards for flashes, sleep and mood, and a personal brain fog card. Not medical advice.
Smallest Step
Type what you're putting off, tap “smaller” until the first step feels easy, set a “when…, I will…” cue and start a 5-minute watercolor timer. Starting is the win.
Connection Steps
Place the people and places in your life on gentle rings, then pick one small, brave social step from a ladder. Unlike a relationship map, it ends in one real step: rate the courage it takes before and after.
Saying No Practice
Read a real-life request, choose a reply and see how it would land: passive, aggressive or assertive. Then write your own no, say it out loud on a 10-second timer, and grow a flower of practice.
Calm Co-Parenting Reply
Paste a tense message from your co-parent and draft your reply. Live checks show when it's brief, informative, friendly and firm, and a tone meter flags words that could reignite the fight.
Energy Budget
Rate your morning energy, sort today's activities into drains and restores, and watch your tank rise and fall. Then plan one restore. For counting your day in spoons, use the Energy Spoons Counter.
Energy Spoons Counter
Start with the spoons you woke up with, spend them on today's activities, add back what restores you, and plan one refill. For living with chronic illness, disability, or autistic and ADHD energy.
EMDR Calm Place Builder
Paint a calm place layer by layer, name what you see, hear and feel, and pick a cue word. With an EMDR-trained therapist, strengthen it with short, slow left-right sets; on your own, practice the cue word.
EMDR Container Exercise
Design a strong container, drag what's bothering you inside without writing details, then close and lock it until you work on it with your therapist.
Bilateral Sounds for Relaxation
Calming ocean, rain, stream or wind that drifts slowly from ear to ear, with soft chimes on top and a timer. Relaxation audio, not EMDR therapy.
Bubbles Meditation
A calm mindfulness game for children: type a worry or thought (or have a grown-up type it), watch it rise in a bubble, and let it float away. For older teens and adults, Leaves on a Stream is the main version.
DBT Diary Card
A free interactive DBT diary card. Tap 0 to 5 for emotions and urges each day, mark actions and the skills you used, and watch the week add up.
Behavior Chain Analysis
Build a DBT behavior chain link by link: vulnerability, prompting event, thoughts, feelings, urges, the behavior and its consequences. Then drop in the skills that could break it.
SUDS Exposure Tracker
Rate your distress from 0 to 100 during an exposure. A gentle reminder chimes every 1 or 2 minutes and your curve draws as you go. Includes an EMDR mode for SUD and VoC between sets.
Relapse Road & Trigger Map
Put your early warning signs on a watercolor road (emotional, mental, physical) and build an exit for each one. Or map your triggers by heat. Groups can share triggers anonymously.
Decisional Balance
An interactive motivational interviewing decisional balance. Add good and not-so-good things about changing and about staying the same, and watch them drop onto a watercolor scale. Weights are optional.
Case Formulation Board
A free 4P case formulation board for clinicians: predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating and protective factors across biological, psychological and social. Sticky notes, links, a clean picture and a supervision view.
Sleep Diary & Sleep Window
A free interactive CBT-I sleep diary. Tap when you got into and out of bed, then the minutes. It works out time in bed, total sleep and sleep efficiency, and suggests a gentle sleep window.
Parts Map
A gentle parts work map. Self sits in the center; place your parts around it, show how they relate, and ask each one what it needs. Best used with a therapist.
Feelings Card Game
A card-shedding game where every color is a feeling family. Match by color or number, and action cards ask you to share a feeling or name a coping skill. Kids and teen decks.
Feed the Worry Monster
Make a friendly monster, then type or draw your worries and feed them to it. It keeps them safe until worry time: practice sorting them, then plan a short worry time each day.
Anonymous Group Wall
A live wall for group therapy. Members post anonymously from their own device, others tap Me too, and the facilitator reveals, hides or removes posts. Nobody sees who wrote what.
Feelings Detective
Crack the case: face, body, situation and words clues appear one at a time. Guess the feeling with as few clues as you can, then say when you felt it too.
Friendship Skills Game
Scenario cards for joining in, disagreeing, being left out and online drama. Choose a response or act it out, then think about how the other person might feel.Browse by exercise type
Ideas and guides
- 42 Best Group Therapy Activities
- Therapy Activities for Adults: A Therapist’s Guide by Approach
- 20 Best Icebreakers for Group Therapy
- 10 Best Therapy Activities for Teens
- Therapeutic Interventions: A List for Progress Notes and How to Document Each One
- Top 10 Apps for Therapists to Use With Clients in 2026
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