🌿 Counselor Guide: Color the Feeling Heart

🌿 Counselor Guide: Color the Feeling Heart

This guide offers child-centered strategies for using the Color the Feeling Heart bundle (sold separately)in individual or small group counseling. The activities help children identify, express, and regulate emotions through creative interaction. With multiple versions of the heart (blank, labeled, and partially guided), counselors can tailor the experience to meet each child’s developmental and emotional needs.

Use this bundle to:

• Encourage emotional vocabulary development
• Facilitate conversations about personal experiences and feelings
• Support trauma-informed practices through art and metaphor
• Integrate grounding, coloring, and sorting tasks for regulation
• Foster insight, reflection, and connection in a safe therapeutic setting

Includes a printable Caregiver Connection handout to send home, extending the impact of the session. This gentle reflection sheet invites parents and caregivers into the child’s emotional world, offering simple prompts to encourage supportive conversations at home.

Each heart becomes a visual tool for understanding internal experiences—perfect for sand tray, play therapy, or as a take-home activity to extend learning beyond the session.