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Neurospicy Steps | ADHD Executive Function Toolkit Web App
A warm, ADHD-friendly web app that breaks overwhelming tasks into small, doable steps — with a quick start guide and complete user guide.
View Product →🧪 Licensed Therapist · 20+ Years · Emotionally Intelligent Goblin Engineering
Where Psychology,
Creativity, &
Curiosity Collide
Helping humans grow through storytelling, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, play, and a tiny bit of beautifully controlled chaos.
- No robotic worksheets.
- No beige coping skills.
- No "just use a planner" energy.
Just intelligent, creative, evidence-informed tools built by a therapist with 20+ years of experience and a brain that refuses to color inside the lines. ✨
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Who This Is For
Tools for Wonderfully
Complicated Brains
Your brain is not broken. It's not "too much." It's not a problem to be managed. It's a complex, creative system that just might need different tools than the beige, one-size-fits-all approaches you've been handed.
Whether you're a teacher running on caffeine and good intentions, a parent trying to decode your kid's emotional landscape, a therapist looking for resources that actually engage clients, or a human whose brain simply runs on a different operating system — you belong in the Curiosity Lab.
And if someone once told you to "just try harder"?
Yeah. We don't do that here. 🦝
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Educators
Exhausted by lifeless curricula? These tools actually engage students.
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Kids & Teens
Resources that speak their language — not a boring adult's version of it.
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Parents
Navigate emotional storms without losing your mind in the process.
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Neurodivergent Humans
ADHD, autism, twice-exceptional — finally, tools designed for your brain.
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Therapists
Ethical, creative resources that make your sessions more engaging.
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Curious Humans
Anyone who suspects emotional growth deserves better design.
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"Therapist. Creator.
Professional Overthinker.
Builder of Weirdly Effective Things."
- Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
- 20+ years working with kids, teens & families
- Specializes in neurodivergent populations
- Creator of gamified therapeutic tools
- Certified in SEL & Executive Functioning
- Powered by curiosity & strategic weirdness ⚡
About Stacy
Hi, I'm Stacy.
I collect questions.
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 20 years of experience working with children, teens, families, and educators.
Some therapists collect certifications. I collected questions.
Questions like:
- Why do so many emotional regulation tools feel emotionally lifeless?
- Why are executive functioning supports designed for brains that already have executive functioning?
- Why does educational content become less imaginative precisely when students need imagination most?
- Why are we still handing overwhelmed humans worksheets that look like tax paperwork?
So I started building something different.
Creative Resilience Counseling is where psychology meets storytelling, neuroscience meets play, and therapeutic strategies meet curiosity, humor, creativity, and actual human engagement.
Because people learn better when they feel emotionally safe, intellectually curious, and meaningfully engaged.
The brain likes novelty. I simply stopped pretending otherwise. ✨
The Curiosity Lab
Explore the Curiosity Lab
A warm, evidence-informed universe of therapeutic resources, executive functioning supports, SEL tools, digital experiences, games, and curiosity-powered learning — designed for wonderfully complicated human brains. Pick a shelf; it opens already filtered to what you came for.
Therapeutic Games
Gamified interventions that feel like play and work like therapy — for groups, classrooms and one-on-one sessions.
- ✦ Card games for coping skills
- ✦ Small-group SCOOT games
- ✦ Resilience challenge decks
SEL Resources
Social-emotional learning that never makes a kid feel managed. Strength-based lessons, activities and group plans.
- ✦ Full SEL lesson sets
- ✦ Small-group curricula
- ✦ Feelings & self-talk activities
Executive Functioning Supports
Built for the getting-started part, not just the doing part. Planning, initiation, focus and follow-through scaffolds.
- ✦ Dopamine menu systems
- ✦ Gamified planners
- ✦ Task-initiation supports
Digital Escape Rooms
Story-driven puzzle experiences that build emotional intelligence, flexible thinking and teamwork — no prep, no printing.
- ✦ Emotion regulation escape room
- ✦ Growth mindset puzzles
- ✦ Seasonal SEL escapes
Apps & Experiments
AI-assisted companions, interactive tools and weird little digital things built in the Lab and tested in real rooms.
- ✦ Reflection & regulation companions
- ✦ Custom GPT helpers
- ✦ Interactive learning experiments
Visual Learning Systems
Posters, visual schedules and calm-down systems for humans who think in pictures, colors and sticky notes.
- ✦ Coping skills menu posters
- ✦ Control-room focus signs
- ✦ Visual strategy charts
Recently Released from the Lab
Real things, on real shelves
Pulled live from the store catalog — so titles, prices and links always match what you'll actually find at checkout.
$29.00App
Humanities Imagination Lab | 354 Speculative Bell Ringers for Gr 9–12 + Web App
354 speculative "what if" bell ringers for grades 9–12, plus a searchable web app, two AI thinking partners, a student reflection journal, and a CASEL-aligned SEL expansion guide.
View Product →$14.00
Lesson Or Curriculum
Resiliency Group: Nautical Theme
7-week small group counseling program. Builds perseverance, resilience, and bounce-back skills. Low-prep, fun nautical theme. ASCA aligned.
View Product →$9.00
Therapeutic Game
Thought Trap Spotter Card Game
Helps teens identify cognitive distortions like Mind Reading and All-or-Nothing thinking. CBT-informed, engaging & non-clinical in feel.
View Product →$11.00
Digital Escape Room
Growth Mindset Escape Room
Puzzle adventure teaching fixed vs. growth mindset through story & discovery. ASCA aligned, Google Slides ready.
View Product →$8.00
Workbook
Quest Map Daily Planner
Gamified daily planning system that turns tasks into quests. For brains that find blank planners threatening. Includes reward system & visual tracker.
View Product →Free Things to Try
Start with something free
No maze, no hunting. Grab one, try it this week, keep what works.
Free
Printable PDF
Optimistic Thinking & Resilience Handout
1-page printable on optimistic thinking as a resilience skill. Practical tips students can start using immediately. 8.5"×11" PDF.
Download Free →Free
Digital Activity
Borrow a Brain — AI Companion
AI-assisted reflection & regulation companion for students who think better in conversation. Thought Trap Spotter, Idea Jar & grounding built in.
Get the Activity →Free
Free
Free
Apps & Interactive Experiments
Digital things that go “oh, interesting”
Built by a therapist, tested with real brains. Status shown exactly as the catalog reports it.
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Neurospicy Steps | ADHD Executive Function Toolkit Web App
A warm, ADHD-friendly web app that breaks overwhelming tasks into small, doable steps — with a quick start guide and complete user guide.
Try the App →Available · New
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Humanities Imagination Lab | 354 Speculative Bell Ringers for Gr 9–12 + Web App
354 speculative "what if" bell ringers for grades 9–12, plus a searchable web app, two AI thinking partners, a student reflection journal, and a CASEL-aligned SEL expansion guide.
Try the App →Coming Soon
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The Regulation Arcade
Gamified emotional regulation app. Students earn points for identifying feelings, using coping tools & completing regulation challenges.
Learn More →Choose Your Path
Same library, different doors
Pick the one that sounds like you today — it opens a collection filtered for that role.
I'm an EducatorClassroom-ready SEL, group plans and activities students actually ask to do.See matching resources →I'm a TherapistSession tools, games and creative interventions for engaged, ethical practice.See matching resources →I'm a Parent or CaregiverHome-friendly supports for big feelings, transitions and busy-brain mornings.See matching resources →I'm Looking for Tools for MyselfExecutive functioning scaffolds, regulation menus and grown-up-sized supports.See matching resources →
Ready to rummage through the entire resource library?
Browse games, printables, digital tools, executive-function supports, SEL resources, escape rooms, and more.
The Method
Welcome to the Control Room.
Authorized Goblins Only.
Here's the thing about conventional emotional regulation tools: most of them are designed by people who assume brains work a certain way. And for a lot of humans — especially neurodivergent ones — that assumption misses the mark by approximately a million miles.
My approach starts with a different assumption: your brain is already doing its best. It just needs strategies that work with its wiring, not against it.
- ✓Engagement first — regulation follows curiosity
- ✓Humor as a regulated nervous system signal
- ✓Novelty is a feature, not a bug
- ✓Shame-free, non-pathologizing language always
- ✓Systems thinking + creative design + neuroscience
- ✓"Weird" strategies are just unexplored strategies
🎛 Control Room · Authorized Goblins Only
"My brain is static and raccoons today."
— a completely valid internal state
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Idea Jar — contents vary daily
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#1 Brain Boss Mug — essential for operations
Note: Treat with respect, provide snacks, and never interrupt during idea generation.
Smart tools for wonderfully complicated brains.✦Evidence-informed. Creativity-fueled.✦SEL without the beige.✦Weirdly effective tools for real human brains.✦Built by a therapist. Powered by curiosity.✦Psychology with personality.✦Emotional growth deserves better design.✦Smart tools for wonderfully complicated brains.✦Evidence-informed. Creativity-fueled.✦SEL without the beige.✦Weirdly effective tools for real human brains.✦Built by a therapist. Powered by curiosity.✦Psychology with personality.✦Emotional growth deserves better design.✦
Field Notes from the Curiosity Lab
What Humans Are Discovering
Finally — tools that don't make my ADHD student feel like the problem. The gamified approach actually worked in ways that years of worksheets didn't. My kids ask to do these activities.
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Middle School Educator
SEL Curriculum User
I've been a therapist for 8 years and these resources changed how I think about engagement. My neurodivergent clients actually look forward to sessions now. The shame-free framing is everything.
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Licensed Therapist
Private Practice, Texas
As a parent of a twice-exceptional kid, I've bought every tool out there. Nothing clicks like this. My daughter said 'this actually makes sense to my brain' — and that sentence is worth everything.
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Parent of 2e Learner
Executive Functioning Tools User
Ready to Explore?
Your brain deserves
better tools.
Whether you're a therapist, educator, parent, or a wonderfully overwhelmed human who's tired of advice that starts with "just" — you're in the right place. Come wander through the Curiosity Lab. See what we're building.
For brains powered by curiosity, caffeine, static, and approximately six emotional support raccoons. 🦝