Emotional Awareness · EA-09
Draw Your Feeling as a Creature
Use an imaginary creature as a flexible way to describe a feeling.
Clinician-created · facilitator review requiredFor clinician-facilitated use
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How to use it
- Imagine a feeling as a creature, shape, or other made-up form.
- Choose its size, color, sound, movement, needs, or habitat.
- Draw as much or as little as you want; the creature is only a metaphor.
Reflection prompts
- What would you like someone to notice about your creature?
- Does it change in different situations?
- What space or support might it want?
Facilitator guidance
Use for creative externalization without treating the creature as a symptom, diagnosis, or hidden meaning. Let the creator define every part of the metaphor.
Adaptations & accessibility
- Build with clay, collage, blocks, or selected picture parts.
- Create a weather pattern or abstract shape instead of a creature.
- Allow storytelling without drawing or sharing.
Professional-use review
Standard licensed-clinician review required before use.
This clinician-created resource is published for professional evaluation. Before client use, the treating clinician or other qualified adult must determine whether it is appropriate and complete every specialist, accessibility, safeguarding, and local-policy review named above. Publication does not represent individualized clinical approval.
