These three new storybooks, part of Therapeutic Fairytales, Volume Two, are designed to help children explore different feeling states, in gentle, slow paced ways using nature as a support. With beautiful, sensitive illustrations, these books can be used by parents, caregivers and professionals to support children’s mental and emotional health. Please click on the book titles below to buy.

Into The Forest is written for children with anxiety

The Sky Fox is written for children feeling loneliness

The Waves is for children living with anxiety

With a gentle, slow-paced approach, these tales invite children to attune into difficult feelings and sensations using metaphor and the imagination, and offer ideas on how to feel safer in their own bodies. Through the characters’ journeys and help provided by animal-guides, these beautifully illustrated tales offer practical strategies to help children connect to nature, their inner resources and learn self-calming techniques.

Volume One of the Therapeutic Fairy Tales, published in 2020, takes specific situations and extremely challenging life transitions, to give children a vehicle to explore feelings through metaphor and story. This more specialist set, is aimed towards therapists looking for therapeutic stories to support their work with children. They are accompanied by the Storybooks Manual, aimed to help practitioners develop their skills around working with stories therapeutically and creatively.

The Storybook Manual – a practical resource for mental health practitioners

The Storm is for children growing through divorce

The Island for children with a parent suffering depression

The Night Crossing for children at end of life through terminal illness