🍂 Bring seasonal mental health and coping-skills conversations to life with this interactive Fall Mental Health Game Show for preteens, teens, and adults!
This fall counseling activity helps participants practice gratitude, sensory self-soothing, calming breathing, grounding techniques, and healthy ways to respond to seasonal changes in mood and energy.
Participants can play individually or compete in teams as they choose categories and point values, answer questions, and discuss emotional wellness, coping skills, changing routines, and finding comfort and connection during fall.
Designed for therapists, school counselors, social workers, educators, and other helping professionals, this flexible activity works well in individual sessions, group therapy, school counseling, SEL lessons, wellness groups, and community mental health programs.
🎮 Five Fall Mental Health Categories
🙏 Grounded in Gratitude
Explore gratitude lists, gratitude jars, thank-you messages, gratitude letters, and simple ways to notice and appreciate positive moments.
🍁 Five Senses of Fall
Practice sensory self-soothing using fall sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures, and comforting seasonal experiences.
🌬️ Leaf It Behind
Learn calming breathing techniques, including leaf breathing and other strategies that use a longer exhale to help the body settle.
🧠 Mental Gymnastics
Use grounding challenges to interrupt racing or overwhelming thoughts through counting, backward spelling, color searches, and fall-themed mental activities.
🧥 Sweater Weather Check-In
Explore seasonal changes in mood, sleep, appetite, energy, and motivation while identifying healthy fall routines and when to ask for additional support.
📦 What’s Included
✔️ Interactive and editable PowerPoint game show
✔️ 25 fall mental health questions
✔️ Five categories with questions worth 100–500 points
✔️ Complete question-and-answer guide
✔️ Discussion prompt for every question
✔️ Printable question cards for screen-free play
✔️ Team scorecard for up to four teams
✔️ Facilitator instructions and game-play tips
✔️ PDF facilitator guide
⭐ Skills and Topics Covered
🍂 Seasonal emotional wellness
🙏 Gratitude and positive reflection
🖐️ Sensory self-soothing
🌬️ Calming breathing exercises
🧠 Grounding techniques
💭 Interrupting racing thoughts
🌤️ Recognizing seasonal mood changes
🛏️ Sleep, energy, and routine changes
🤝 Reaching out for support
🌱 Building healthy fall routines
👥 Designed for Preteens, Teens and Adults
Adapt the questions and prompts to the age, needs, and comfort level of your participants. Use school-based examples with preteens and teens or expand conversations to include work, relationships, parenting, independent living, and adult responsibilities with older groups.
🍁 Perfect For
💙 Individual and group therapy
🏫 School counseling
🌱 SEL and wellness lessons
🧠 Mental health groups
👥 Preteen, teen, and adult groups
🍂 Fall counseling activities
📚 Middle school and high school
🎓 College student support
🤝 Community mental health programs
🙏 Gratitude lessons and groups
⭐ Seasonal self-care workshops
📅 September, October, and November sessions
💡 Flexible Ways to Play
Use the interactive PowerPoint for a whole-group game, divide participants into two to four teams, or choose individual questions for one-on-one sessions. Print and cut apart the included cards for small groups, workshops, and screen-free play.
The discussion prompts help participants connect each question to their own fall routines, sensory preferences, mood patterns, coping strategies, and sources of support.
Microsoft PowerPoint or compatible presentation software is recommended for the interactive game. The printable PDF can be opened with a standard PDF reader.
Due to differences between monitors and printers, printed colors may vary slightly from what appears on screen.
📌 Important Information
⏬ Instant Digital Download
No physical item will be mailed. After checkout, you'll receive a secure link to download the ZIP file.
⚠️ Disclaimer & Terms of Use
Although I am a Mental Health Therapist by profession, I am not your therapist. All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute mental health advice or establish a therapist-client relationship.
These digital downloads are copyrighted. You may print for personal or professional use but may not resell or distribute.
For commercial use inquiries, email Hello@ErinHarings.com.
© All designs are copyrighted and property of TherapistWorksheets.
🍂 Bring seasonal mental health and coping-skills conversations to life with this interactive Fall Mental Health Game Show for preteens, teens, and adults!
This fall counseling activity helps participants practice gratitude, sensory self-soothing, calming breathing, grounding techniques, and healthy ways to respond to seasonal changes in mood and energy.
Participants can play individually or compete in teams as they choose categories and point values, answer questions, and discuss emotional wellness, coping skills, changing routines, and finding comfort and connection during fall.
Designed for therapists, school counselors, social workers, educators, and other helping professionals, this flexible activity works well in individual sessions, group therapy, school counseling, SEL lessons, wellness groups, and community mental health programs.
🎮 Five Fall Mental Health Categories
🙏 Grounded in Gratitude
Explore gratitude lists, gratitude jars, thank-you messages, gratitude letters, and simple ways to notice and appreciate positive moments.
🍁 Five Senses of Fall
Practice sensory self-soothing using fall sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures, and comforting seasonal experiences.
🌬️ Leaf It Behind
Learn calming breathing techniques, including leaf breathing and other strategies that use a longer exhale to help the body settle.
🧠 Mental Gymnastics
Use grounding challenges to interrupt racing or overwhelming thoughts through counting, backward spelling, color searches, and fall-themed mental activities.
🧥 Sweater Weather Check-In
Explore seasonal changes in mood, sleep, appetite, energy, and motivation while identifying healthy fall routines and when to ask for additional support.
📦 What’s Included
✔️ Interactive and editable PowerPoint game show
✔️ 25 fall mental health questions
✔️ Five categories with questions worth 100–500 points
✔️ Complete question-and-answer guide
✔️ Discussion prompt for every question
✔️ Printable question cards for screen-free play
✔️ Team scorecard for up to four teams
✔️ Facilitator instructions and game-play tips
✔️ PDF facilitator guide
⭐ Skills and Topics Covered
🍂 Seasonal emotional wellness
🙏 Gratitude and positive reflection
🖐️ Sensory self-soothing
🌬️ Calming breathing exercises
🧠 Grounding techniques
💭 Interrupting racing thoughts
🌤️ Recognizing seasonal mood changes
🛏️ Sleep, energy, and routine changes
🤝 Reaching out for support
🌱 Building healthy fall routines
👥 Designed for Preteens, Teens and Adults
Adapt the questions and prompts to the age, needs, and comfort level of your participants. Use school-based examples with preteens and teens or expand conversations to include work, relationships, parenting, independent living, and adult responsibilities with older groups.
🍁 Perfect For
💙 Individual and group therapy
🏫 School counseling
🌱 SEL and wellness lessons
🧠 Mental health groups
👥 Preteen, teen, and adult groups
🍂 Fall counseling activities
📚 Middle school and high school
🎓 College student support
🤝 Community mental health programs
🙏 Gratitude lessons and groups
⭐ Seasonal self-care workshops
📅 September, October, and November sessions
💡 Flexible Ways to Play
Use the interactive PowerPoint for a whole-group game, divide participants into two to four teams, or choose individual questions for one-on-one sessions. Print and cut apart the included cards for small groups, workshops, and screen-free play.
The discussion prompts help participants connect each question to their own fall routines, sensory preferences, mood patterns, coping strategies, and sources of support.
Microsoft PowerPoint or compatible presentation software is recommended for the interactive game. The printable PDF can be opened with a standard PDF reader.
Due to differences between monitors and printers, printed colors may vary slightly from what appears on screen.
📌 Important Information
⏬ Instant Digital Download
No physical item will be mailed. After checkout, you'll receive a secure link to download the ZIP file.
⚠️ Disclaimer & Terms of Use
Although I am a Mental Health Therapist by profession, I am not your therapist. All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute mental health advice or establish a therapist-client relationship.
These digital downloads are copyrighted. You may print for personal or professional use but may not resell or distribute.
For commercial use inquiries, email Hello@ErinHarings.com.
© All designs are copyrighted and property of TherapistWorksheets.
