Breaking Barriers Down - Social Skills Games and Therapy Games, A Feelings Game for Kids that Develops Emotion Regulation and Explores Anger, Sadness, Fear and Joy

This has quickly become one of my favorite games to use in therapy! It makes working on social skills feel fun instead of like work. The conversation prompts encourage kids and teens to open up, practice communication, build confidence, and think about different perspectives in a relaxed way. I like that it’s easy to adapt for different ages and personalities, and it works well in individual sessions, family sessions, or even small groups. The game is well made, easy to use, and has led to some great conversations with my clients. I would definitely recommend it to therapists, school counselors, teachers, and parents looking for an engaging way to build social and communication skills.

Fun game for client to bond and share emotions. It’s just like jenga so super easy to play and teach! Questions are appropriate for a range of ages.

This game gets kiddos talking about their feelings and helps build rapport.

As a therapist, I highly recommend this game. It’s great for kids and teens - especially for building social skills and building rapport. The size is perfect and it’s easy to play for all ages. My one critique is that the blocks are not all even, which lowers the quality of the game itself.

Great game for the whole family. Fun to play and helps the kids talk about their feelings and for parents who don’t know what questions to ask or how to get their kids to talk. This is awesome! We first played this game in therapy with my kids and they really loved it and it helped them get out feelings as well as talking on other subjects openly. It’s not very big. It comes with a tote bag so you don’t have to keep up with a broken box and worry about losing pieces. Great game with a great price! I would definitely recommend.

This set is great for use with kids/teenagers. This is geared specifically around emotions. I enjoyed using this to help kids in therapy get better insight into their emotions without having to ask questions directly. All kids I used this with have enjoyed getting to play a game while talking. The blocks appear to be made well but are not as sturdy as Jenga blocks. The blocks seem to be more of a plastic material.

It has been fun for the kids to play. The drawstring bag is the worst part of it as the drawstring broke. It’s easy to learn to play and makes it easy to learn about emotions in therapy. It was a decent value for the money.

I’ve used this is sessions with clients, great way to eliminate intimidation around being vulnerable. Questions aren’t too deep and personal, making it great for building rapport with a new client. Highly recommend for every therapist.

Breaking Barriers Down is a fun way of opening up communication between child & therapist. Please note that not all the cards are suitable for young children so you need to read over them first. The child will need to be able to communicate in some way to play this game.