Video Game Counseling

02/16/2024

08/27/2023

🎮 Unlocking Mental Wellness with Video Game Therapy on Nintendo Switch

🌟 Therapeutic Potential of Gaming

🤝 Nintendo Switch cooperative games are more than just fun; they're a tool for therapy, focusing on skills like communication, teamwork, and problem-solving.
🛠 Therapeutic Strategies

🎨 Align gaming with therapy goals like creativity and cooperation.
🧩 Build rapport through puzzle-solving games.
📊 Rate anxiety levels before and after gaming for real-time insights.
🎮 Top Games for Therapy

Overcooked 2

🗨 Enhances communication and stress management.
🔄 Useful for couples and groups.
Luigi’s Mansion 3

👻 Builds courage and collaboration skills.
🧭 Great for family therapy sessions.
Rocket League

🤝 Fosters teamwork and strategic planning.
👫 Helpful for social skills.
Animal Crossing

🏡 Encourages creativity and long-term planning.
💡 Useful for individual and family goals.
Splatoon 2

🌈 Promotes adaptive thinking and flexibility.
🎯 Good for groups focusing on resilience.
📝 Why It Matters

🌈 By connecting gaming to real-world scenarios, therapy can be engaging, meaningful, and effective.
👀 Interested in Learning More?

📚 Check out our comprehensive guide to integrate these games into your therapeutic practice.

https://videogamecounseling.com/video-game-therapy-on-the-nintendo-switch-teamwork-strategy-and-fun-in-gaming/

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Explore therapeutic gaming on Nintendo Switch. Enhance communication, teamwork, creativity, and more through cooperative games in mental health care.

09/24/2022

Officially backed by research, video games in therapy can help with self-expression, therapeutic alliance, social development, self-control, and many more things to be talked about in future posts.

The information was gathered from the book, "Game Play: Therapeutic Use of Games with Children and Adolescents" by Jessica Stone, PhD. I highly recommend this book for further reading and sources for research.

If you'd like to learn more about applying these therapy skills in your practice, schedule a consultation through:

email: monet@videogamecounseling.com
website: www.videogamecounseling.com

09/05/2022

Reasons why video games can be used in therapy!
Video games have one of many tools to encourage people to start or continue therapy.

Therapy can be intimidating, and I do whatever it takes to create the right environment for you.

Before video games, I would do walk-and-talk therapy at the park, use physical activities, play music, and provide art supplies for my clients.

If you want to design a therapy session that works best for you, then contact us at our website (www.videogamecounseling.com) or email (monet@videogamecounseling.com)

08/27/2022

08/11/2022

Therapy group geared toward gamers to build social, communication, and coping skills for a better year is starting!

The group will also help gamers connect with others as they open up, connect, and support each other.

1)Practice social, communication, and coping skills in a virtual and gaming setting.
2)Learn to open up, build connections, and create memories with your peers.
3)Cultivate awareness of healthy technology use.

80 Minute Meetings Weekly; $85/meeting; 6 per group
Middle School, High School, College, & Adult groups.
Telehealth For Clients in California and Vermont.

I've created a flyer to be shared with anyone interested. I am licensed in California and Vermont and can help clients from there.

Dates and times will be created once I can organize them around extracurriculars and school times.

Book a free consultation to learn more!

Website: https://www.videogamecounseling.com/
Email:monet@videogamecounseling.com

05/16/2022

Gaming is actually good for your brain! In moderation, adolescent and young adult gamers, "were better able to switch between visual tasks, divide their attention between different moving objects and remember the location of hidden objects."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-not-terrible-news-about-videogames-and-your-kids-brain-11652460977

Gaming has cognitive benefits when teenagers and young adults play in moderation, though gamers who take it to an extreme perform worse in some tasks.

01/10/2022

Super thankful to be featured in WIRED magazine for my work using video games in play therapy!
It's been an exciting time to be a therapist and I have to thank all the other great video game therapists for building my own knowledge and the field of therapy!

https://www.wired.com/story/online-gaming-is-the-new-therapists-office/amp

Plenty of us play to let off steam, but online multiplayer and single-player gaming can be healing in the hands of mental health professionals.

01/10/2022

03/21/2021

Happy Sunday!

I wanted to share a clip from a recording I made on using Roblox in play therapy sessions!

Here you can see how to help kids talk about their feelings in Roblox:

https://youtu.be/1rX6MXBacXs

For the full video on how to use Roblox click here:
https://youtu.be/DnQMC8ZlrOs

Here's a way to help kids express their feelings through feeling faces in Roblox. It can be difficult for some kids to verbalize their feelings. So to make...

12/28/2020

Happy Holidays everyone! I wanted to share an interview I had with the M***a Vista High School editor, Brian Xu, El Estoque student newspaper.

I got the chance to talk about how video games have helped my clients overcome their barriers in therapy. We also talked about how to help students gain control over their video game habits so that they can bring balance to their lives.

https://elestoque.org/2020/12/16/opinion/game-changing-therapy/

Understanding therapist Monet Goldman’s unique approach to mental health in the video gaming community

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