Anxiety therapy for Children: Playful Strategies That Work
Children rarely sit still for hard conversations about fear. Their bodies tell the story first, in squirmy legs, tight shoulders, a sudden stomachache before school, or a meltdown that seems to come out of nowhere. If you want to treat anxiety effectively, you have to speak the languages a child already knows: movement, story, rhythm, drawing, pretend. The work is clinical, but the medium is play. I have spent many hours on the floor with kids who hate talking about worr