Free therapy activities
Interactive activities for therapists, parents & teens
Evidence-based, clinician-designed. CBT, DBT, play therapy, somatic, narrative. Save as PNG, email a copy, or embed on your blog — no signup required.
Circles of Control
Sort worries into what you can control, influence, or let go. The #1 anxiety management activity made interactive.
ClinicalAnxiety management · Locus of control · ACT
Body Map Check-in
Place colored dots on a body silhouette to show where feelings live physically. No words required.
ClinicalSomatic awareness · Emotion identification · Body-based processing
Virtual Sand Tray
A digital sand tray: place miniature figures in a scene to express what words can't. One of the most projective tools in play therapy.
ClinicalProjective expression · Symbolic communication · Trauma processing
Worry Box
Write worries down, lock them in a box, and open it with your therapist. Externalizes anxiety into something containable.
ClinicalAnxiety externalization · Containment · Distress tolerance
Wise Mind
DBT framework: reasonable mind + emotion mind = wise mind. Map yours and find the part that already knows what to do.
ClinicalDBT skills · Emotion regulation · Wise Mind state
5-4-3-2-1 Grounding
Five things you see, four you feel, three you hear, two you smell, one you taste. A staircase out of a panic moment.
ClinicalAnxiety · Panic · Dissociation · Grounding
Feelings Chart
A grid of feeling faces with words. Pick the one that matches how you're feeling right now.
ClinicalEmotion identification · Affect labeling · Vocabulary building
Calm-Down Jar
Shake the jar. Watch the glitter swirl, then slowly settle. Your thoughts do the same thing.
ClinicalAnxiety · Co-regulation · Mindfulness
Feelings Thermometer
An interactive thermometer for rating distress intensity. Simple, visual, and intuitive.
ClinicalDistress rating · Emotion regulation · SUDS scaling
Gratitude Garden
Grow a garden by naming things you are grateful for. Each gratitude plants a flower.
ClinicalPositive psychology · Negativity bias counterbalance · Savoring
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Request a DemoFree therapy activities, worksheets & tools — for therapists, parents, and teens
Emora's 10 interactive therapy activities are evidence-based, clinician-designed, and free to use. Each is grounded in a published therapeutic framework — cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), play therapy, somatic therapy, and narrative therapy — and rebuilt as an interactive tool you can run in-session, assign between sessions, or keep on hand for moments at home.
Every activity supports Save as PNG, Email a copy, and an embed snippet for clinician blogs and resource pages. No signup. No paywall. No tracking of your activity contents.
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For clinicians
Use any activity in a session, assign it as homework via the email link, or paste the embed iframe into your own site. The activities preserve drawings, drag-and-drop placement, typed answers, and ratings, so the exported PNG is the client's actual work — not a screenshot of a worksheet template. Each page links to peer-reviewed sources and a brief clinician note behind the "For clinicians" disclosure on the activity page.
For parents & families
Activities work just as well at home. They're designed to be used alongside a therapist when one's available; they're also a respectful, age-appropriate way to talk about hard things together. Email yourself a copy of what you've made and bring it to the next session — many clinicians appreciate seeing what came up between visits.
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