This story opens the door to a therapeutic exploration of the inner world of children who go through immigration, relocation and any other re-adjustment they are facing. The book allows the processing of leaving family and friends behind and the different emotional challenges involved.

This story opens the door for the child and the therapist, to explore together the emotional challenges of being bullied. The book invites the couple at the therapy room to process topics such as fear, shame, helplessness, anger and more.

This book opens the door to the world of mindfulness. It allows the therapist to present the child and their family with tools to better address a wide range of challenges. These tools include learning how to calm themselves down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware.

This story brings to centre-stage the dynamics of avoidance within the family. It opens the door for the therapist to raise the question of issues that are not being spoken; not being addressed. It invites the parties to explore the consequences of such ‘ignoring the elephant in the room’ on their lives.

This story opens the door to the child’s worries and fears - the world of anxiety. Together, the child and the therapist can explore those ‘inner-monsters’, talk them through and shed light on them.

This story opens the door to a therapeutic exploration of the challenges involved in moving houses and starting over at a new house, school and neighbourhood. The book invites the couple in the therapy room to discuss the different challenges, fears and the overall unknown which starting over may hold.

This story opens the door to a therapeutic exploration with children who are subjected to some unkindness from their surroundings, which may result from their personal interpretation of the world. It allows the therapist to give the child skills and important tools of how to ‘read’ the external world in a more protective and constructive way.

This story opens the door to explore with the child his or her reluctance about future engagements with ‘scary’ people. It allows the therapist to investigate with the child new ideas about things we scared of or avoid, such as - perhaps they are not what they appear to be...

This story invites the child and the therapist to process the child’s fantasy to ‘fix’ their parents’ marital difficulties. The book allows joined exploration of related emotions such as guilt and helplessness together with the process of adjustment and acceptance.

This story opens the door to a joined exploration of the concept of illness and death. It allows the child and the therapist access to processing loss, death and life following these.

This story opens the door to a joined exploration, child and therapist, of past traumas. The access to these wounds in the therapy room is often a major part of the therapy itself. Through this story, a bridge can be built, allowing access to invisible wounds and their healing.

This story opens the door to the world of the shy, introverted children and those who feel words to be uncomfortable. Written in a few words, leaving the narrative fluid and abstract, the book creates the space for the therapist and the child to explore this world of ‘hard-to-express’ emotions together.

This story opens the door for the child to share with the therapist their war story. Living in a war zone, fleeing, leaving home behind - these are only a few of potentially traumatising events refugees are faced with. The book invites the couple in the therapy room to explore these as well as processing the nature of a traumatic event - learning that the world you know can turn on its head in the blink of an eye.

This story invites the child to explore with the therapist his or her ‘otherness’. It opens the door to emotions such as shame, frustration and defeat due to feelings of not belonging, together with a process of a therapeutic mirroring.