Inside Out Emotional Exploration Set – Great For Therapeutic Use
Riley is back – older, navigating adolescence, and experiencing an expanded emotional world. Alongside familiar core emotions such as Joy, Sadness and Anger, new characters including Anxiety, Embarrassment and Ennui offer powerful entry points for exploring complex internal experiences.
This interactive set provides a creative, developmentally accessible way to work with children and young people around emotional awareness, regulation and internal conflict.
What’s Included:
A full-colour illustrated storybook based on the Inside Out narrative
10 detailed figurines representing key emotions
A durable playmat to support symbolic and experiential work
Why It Works in Therapy:
• Supports emotional literacy by externalising feelings through character representation
• Helps children and adolescents explore “parts” of themselves safely and non-directively
• Useful for trauma-informed, attachment-based and integrative approaches
• Encourages projection, storytelling and metaphor – often accessing material beyond verbal processing alone
• Particularly helpful for clients struggling with anxiety, shame, overwhelm or emotional dysregulation
The figurines and playmat can be used for sand tray-style interventions, parts work, narrative exploration, psychoeducation around emotional development, and relational mapping. Because the characters are culturally familiar, they reduce resistance and increase engagement.
Suitable for work with children (3+) and adaptable for pre-teens and adolescents when used creatively.
Portable and easy to store, making it ideal for therapists working across settings, including schools, clinics, and mobile practice.
The real power here is this: when a adult or child says “Anxiety is taking over the control panel,” they are doing sophisticated internal work without feeling exposed. That’s therapeutic leverage wrapped in Pixar.
Play is not the opposite of serious work. It is often the doorway to it.
Inside Out Emotional Exploration Set – Great For Therapeutic Use
Riley is back – older, navigating adolescence, and experiencing an expanded emotional world. Alongside familiar core emotions such as Joy, Sadness and Anger, new characters including Anxiety, Embarrassment and Ennui offer powerful entry points for exploring complex internal experiences.
This interactive set provides a creative, developmentally accessible way to work with children and young people around emotional awareness, regulation and internal conflict.
What’s Included:
A full-colour illustrated storybook based on the Inside Out narrative
10 detailed figurines representing key emotions
A durable playmat to support symbolic and experiential work
Why It Works in Therapy:
• Supports emotional literacy by externalising feelings through character representation
• Helps children and adolescents explore “parts” of themselves safely and non-directively
• Useful for trauma-informed, attachment-based and integrative approaches
• Encourages projection, storytelling and metaphor – often accessing material beyond verbal processing alone
• Particularly helpful for clients struggling with anxiety, shame, overwhelm or emotional dysregulation
The figurines and playmat can be used for sand tray-style interventions, parts work, narrative exploration, psychoeducation around emotional development, and relational mapping. Because the characters are culturally familiar, they reduce resistance and increase engagement.
Suitable for work with children (3+) and adaptable for pre-teens and adolescents when used creatively.
Portable and easy to store, making it ideal for therapists working across settings, including schools, clinics, and mobile practice.
The real power here is this: when a adult or child says “Anxiety is taking over the control panel,” they are doing sophisticated internal work without feeling exposed. That’s therapeutic leverage wrapped in Pixar.
Play is not the opposite of serious work. It is often the doorway to it.
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