Shiver Therapy

💥 **CAPES ON, CONFIDENCE UP!** 💥

We just wrapped up an incredible four days at Confidence Camp! 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ Through hands-on crafts, games, and deep social-emotional learning, our campers built tools to discover their inner superpowers.

Here’s a look back at our epic 4-day adventure:

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* 🎭 Day 1: Superheroes Have Feelings Too– We explored big emotions, designed superhero personas, unmasked the “villains” that make life tough, and started our Superhero Toolkits.

* 🛡️ Day 2: Superheroes Have Mighty Mindsets– We created “Shields of Protection” featuring our strengths and support teams. Then, we played the Shield Challenge—crumpling up hard things and blocking them with positive affirmations!

* 🌱 Day 3: Superheroes Grow with Mistakes– We embraced the Power of YET, crafted affirmation Power Bands, created clay art and made mistakes then fixed them, and turned “magnificent mistakes” into our Mistakes Museum.

* 💎 Day 4: Superheroes Ready To Fly!We customized capes covered in our strengths and masks that block negative mindsets. We wrapped up with an emotional-awareness treasure hunt and shared our big takeaways on cartoon POW papers!

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🧰 The Superhero Toolkit & Bibliotherapy 📚

Every camper went home with a regulation toolkit including an ice cube squishy, a maze game to slow down, a breathing balloon, and a “YETi” noodle! We also integrated bibliotherapy all week long, using powerful children’s books to help campers see their own emotional journeys reflected in stories. 📖✨

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💡 *Note: To protect confidentiality, no children’s work is represented in this video. All examples shown were created by our therapists or interns!*

> “I can’t do it... **YET!**” 💖 We are so incredibly proud of our resilient campers!

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We have a few spots left! Sign up today! 🌟🎉

Ever feel like the biggest things you’re processing don’t actually have words? 🛋️✨

I spent this past weekend diving deep into an incredible training on Sand Tray Play Therapy and I am so excited to bring more of this powerful modality to the practice!

Our deepest emotions and stressors are often stored where talk therapy can’t easily reach. When a client—child, teen, or adult—steps up to the tray, they use miniatures to build a 3D picture of their inner world.

Why it works:

✨No words needed:You don’t have to explain your overwhelm; you can just show it.
✨Safe distance: Looking at a problem in the sand makes it manageable to explore, shift, and heal.
✨Deep processing: The sensory act of moving sand helps unlock and resolve subconscious stress.

Healing doesn’t always happen in a straight line, and it doesn’t always require a speech. Sometimes, it just takes a tray of sand. ⏳🌱

Play room things! ☀️ 🤩 🌈

It’s a busy week at Shiver Therapy! 🎉

“Play is the child’s symbolic language of self-expression and can reveal (a) what the child has experienced; (b) reactions to what was experienced; (c) feelings about what was experienced; (d) what the child wishes, wants, or needs; and (e) the child’s perception of self.”
Garry L. Landreth, Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

CAMP CONFIDENCE 💥 🦸 🦸🏻‍♀️
June 22-25 (9am-12)

Is your child struggling with confidence, self-esteem, communication or emotional growth?

Ages: 7-9 and 10-12

✨Self-Esteem building
✨Effective Communication practice
✨Encouraging a Growth Mindset
✨Healthy emotional expression
✨Connection in a supportive environment
✨Grit and Resilience

Parents will receive ideas and strategies at the end of each day, so they can continue the skills building at home.

This camp will be full of play-based, creative therapeutic activities including arts and crafts, games and books all specifically designed to help your child develop the skills they need to feel more confident, connected and capable!

At Camp Confidence, your child will be guided by two licensed child therapists with nearly three decades of combined experience. We’re passionate about supporting your child’s growth into a confident individual, ready to navigate life’s ups and downs.

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What a wonderful weekend at the Florida Association for Play Therapy Conference! 💥 🦸🏻‍♀️

Learning more about helping kids and teens is always fun! 🤩

Florida Association for Play Therapy