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Feelings are big.
Their buddy is bigger.

CalmCritters helps children ages 5 to 15 build emotional skills through games, grounding tools, and a digital support animal that grows with them.

Designed by a licensed clinical counselor

How It Works

Three steps to calmer kids

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Adopt a Critter

Kids choose a digital support animal. Their critter becomes their emotional companion, always ready to help them through tough moments.

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Play to Grow

Coping tools disguised as games. Breathing exercises become adventures. Grounding techniques become treasure hunts. Every skill earned levels up their critter.

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Watch Them Thrive

As kids practice emotional skills, their critter evolves, unlocks new abilities, and opens new worlds. Real emotional growth, reflected on screen.

What's inside

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Grounding Games

Clinical grounding techniques reimagined as interactive play. Body scans become "find the calm" adventures. Sensory exercises become tactile puzzles. Evidence-based, kid-approved.

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Your Support Animal

A digital companion that responds to your child's emotions. Feeling anxious? Your critter offers a calming exercise. Feeling proud? It celebrates with you. Always there, never judging.

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Thought Detective

Cognitive reframing made playful. Kids learn to spot unhelpful thought patterns through detective-style challenges. Building mental flexibility without it feeling like therapy.

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Parent Dashboard

Track emotional patterns and growth without reading private entries. See which tools your child uses most, when they check in, and how their skills are developing over time.

Grows with your child

A 6-year-old and a 13-year-old need different things. CalmCritters knows the difference.

5-8
Little Explorers
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Simple, sensory, safe

Big colorful buttons. Breathing with their critter. Naming emotions with pictures. Gentle animations that teach calming without words.

9-12
Brave Builders
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Games that build real skills

Thought detective challenges. Emotion journals with prompts. Strategy games that teach problem-solving and emotional flexibility.

13-15
Young Navigators
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Tools for the real world

Stress management for school pressure. Social situation scenarios. Private journaling with guided reflection. Mature without being clinical.

Built Different

Most kids' wellness apps are built by tech teams who consult therapists. This one was born in a therapy office.

CalmCritters was created by a licensed professional clinical counselor — and mom — who kept hearing the same thing from her adult clients: "I wish I could teach my kids what I'm learning in here." Every coping tool comes from real clinical practice, translated into something kids actually want to use.

🎓 MA, LPCC Licensed
🎖️ US Air Force Veteran
🧠 Trauma Specialist
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Meet the Creator

Hi, I'm the therapist (and grandma) behind CalmCritters

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor · MA · US Air Force Veteran · Mom & Grandmother

As a licensed therapist, I work with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, grief, and life's hardest chapters. Over and over, my clients would tell me the same thing: "I wish I could teach my kids what I'm learning in here." That gap — parents gaining powerful coping skills but having no kid-friendly way to pass them on — is what sparked CalmCritters. As a mom and grandmother, I felt it personally too. Every game, every grounding exercise, every critter interaction is built on real therapeutic techniques, designed so families can bridge that gap together.

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Every child deserves a safe place to learn about their feelings

CalmCritters is being built with one goal: make emotional wellness something kids look forward to, not something they endure. Because the skills they build now become the foundation they stand on forever.