Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a tabletop role-playing game that has been played since its inception in the 1970s. The goal of the game is to collaboratively tell a story that everyone gets to contribute to – there’s no winning or losing. As the story progresses, players must work together to defeat monsters, solve puzzles, and find treasure, while the Game Master (GM) acts as a referee/moderator and sets the scene for the players.

This therapy group aims to help participants develop skills and social understanding through experience, allowing participants to apply their social skills in practice, while learning from each other in a fun, supportive environment. If your 11-12 year-old child is imaginative, enjoys fantasy, and/or struggles with social skills, they may be a good fit for this group.

Equip your teen with foundational skills for the upcoming school year in our Conversation and Social Resilience program. Designed for high school students, this engaging and supportive group helps participants develop essential social skills and build resilience in challenging situations. Led by Dr. Megan Broome and Dr. Mickell Lethco, the program combines techniques from the acclaimed PEERS curriculum, offering evidence-based strategies in a safe and nurturing environment. Over five days, students will engage in interactive activities, role-playing scenarios, and receive personalized feedback to enhance their confidence and competence in various social interactions.

Stress Less is a group designed for high school students to navigate the ups and downs of adolescence and build resilience. Adolescence can be a challenging time with many changes, social challenges, and academic stress. This group aims to help students learn healthy coping strategies and create a safe space to discuss life stressors.

Managing Big Emotions is a group designed for 7 and 8-year-olds to gain awareness about how our emotions impact us and how to deal with big emotions. At this age, children are beginning to experience a wide range of emotions while also learning how to express and articulate their emotions to others. This group will help provide the language to share their feelings and learn healthy coping strategies.

Combining art and educational therapy techniques, this new course will emphasize the development of writing skills with inspiration drawn from creative art projects. Essential writing structure and sentence development will be practiced. Each session will begin with an art activity drawn from the principles of art therapy, for example, projects meant to elicit emotions, promote relaxation, and incite creative thinking. Writing assignments will be based on discoveries drawn from the art activity.

Students may choose to sign up for one week (5 sessions) or both weeks (10 sessions).

Combining art and educational therapy techniques, this new course will emphasize the development of writing skills with inspiration drawn from creative art projects. Essential writing structure and sentence development will be practiced. Each session will begin with an art activity drawn from the principles of art therapy, for example, projects meant to elicit emotions, promote relaxation, and incite creative thinking. Writing assignments will be based on discoveries drawn from the art activity.

Students may choose to sign up for one week (5 sessions) or both weeks (10 sessions).

If your child has been struggling with reading, spelling, writing, and/or handwriting, Slingerland's multisensory, structured, sequential, and simultaneous teaching approach can help to create the connections your child needs to succeed. This intensive, 10-hour summer course will be tailored to your child's needs and can focus on teaching and reinforcing handwriting, decoding, fluency, comprehension, encoding, and basic writing skills and will help maintain literacy skills typically lost in summer. Students may choose to sign up for one or both two-week sessions.

Does your teen/tween struggle with making and keeping friends? Socializing during adolescence can be challenging for many reasons: social anxiety, loneliness, cliques, jealousy, gossip, social media, bullying, and peer pressure can all play a part. While friendships can sometimes be difficult to navigate, students with strong, healthy, long-term friendships will be better equipped to handle the other challenges associated with adolescence. The friendship bootcamp will cover many social skills topics appropriate for female, male, and non-binary adolescents. The group will incorporate games, art projects, and other activities to help your child learn and practice a range of skills: listening and reciprocal conversation skills, perspective-taking and showing empathy, self-advocacy, conflict resolution, identifying feelings, managing strong emotions, and more.

Is your child struggling with the basic foundational skills of making friends? Play and art-based social skills group will focus on providing them with instruction on the building blocks of friendship. In this group, children will be able to learn about and practice the communication, engagement, regulation, and interpersonal skills that are needed to form meaningful relationships with peers. This group is farm themed, so each session, your child will be introduced to an animal that teaches them about a new helpful skill.

Does your child struggle with a basic understanding of emotions and emotional expression? Have you noticed they need more support in talking about emotions and understanding their emotional responses? If you have a child who struggles with emotions and loves books, then this group may be a good fit. This bibliotherapy group uses children’s books to support social emotional learning (SEL). Each session, the group will read a book featuring a different emotion, will reflect on the story and skills they learned, and will participate in different art and play activities related to the emotion.