Creative Ways To Help Children Manage Big Feelings

A Therapist’s Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children

Published 2017 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London.

Help children to stay on top of “big” feelings like anger, sadness and anxiety with this ingeniously easy-to-use therapy toolkit. Focusing on making therapy for children both purposeful and playful, the book provides 47 activities to transform your sessions using everyday materials and a variety of tried-and-tested therapy models.

Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Anxiety

Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families

Published 2021 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London

I invite you to enjoy this wonderful book that Doctors Zandt and Barrett have created for all of us grownup therapists who need a kickstart for our imagination. They have taken the complicated ideas that explain how anxiety works in the body and mind and created fun, memorable ways to explain and experience what happens when a child gets anxious and what to do once anxiety occurs.

From the Foreword by Dr Karen Cassiday, President of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America

Available now as ebook and paperback!

Creative Ways to Help Children Regulate and Manage Anger

Ideas and Activities for Working with Anger and Emotional Regulation

Published 2024 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London.

Gentle and conversational in her narrative, Fiona invites child therapists to consider creative ways of responding to children’s therapeutic needs around anger, as well as the needs of themselves and parents/caregivers. The activities offered have the potential to transform the child’s therapy experience through their use of metaphor and play, providing the embodied experiences necessary for therapeutic change.

Katherine Olejniczak, Supervising Director of Psychology and Play Therapy Australia