color mending therapy
color mending therapy
Learn to self-regulate without escaping
Color Mending Therapy is an evidence-based way to move through emotions with coloring.
Take the quiz to see if it would be a beneficial tool to add to your mental health toolkit!
You’re stuck in the same emotional loops
✔︎ You feel overwhelmed and confused by your emotions.
✔︎ You rely on others to tell you what you're feeling and what to do about it.
✔︎ Every time you try to 'figure yourself out' you just end up overthinking and more confused.
✔︎ You feel like a passenger in your own emotional life.
Here's why: When you try to put how you're feeling into words first, your brain uses old patterns and past experiences to make sense of what you're feeling now.
Which keeps you talking in loops and feeling stuck in a rut.
There’s a better way
Color Mending lets you bypass those old patterns and past experiences entirely. By coloring out how you're feeling right now, you can see what's really happening instead of what your brain thinks should be happening.
This isn't about creating art - it's about translating body sensations into colors and shapes so you can decode what your body is trying to communicate.
No artistic skill required, just willingness to trust your first instinct.
Color Mending bypasses the old mental patterns and gets straight to what your body is actually telling you.
Find out what your emotions are telling you in 15 minutes.
Meet Color Mending—the evidence-backed tool that helps you understand what you're feeling and why, without rehashing your past or having to find the perfect words.
Here's how it works:
Feel it → Notice the sensation in your body
Color it → Turn the feeling into a color and shape on paper (this is called intuitive coloring)
Decode it → Use the Color Mending Color and Shapes Charts to understand what your coloring means
No artistic skills needed. Just colors, shapes, and curiosity.
Color Mending is perfect for people who…
✓ Are ready to trust their body's wisdom and become their own emotional expert
✓ Want to break free from depending on others to decode their feelings
✓ Are committed to moving through emotions instead of escaping or suppressing them
✓ Want a tool that creates breakthroughs in one session, not months of processing
Pick your color mending adventure
Teach Yourself Color Mending
Build emotional awareness through a 21-day challenge.
Perfect if you want to: Try it yourself, risk-free.
Complete a set of challenges to learn how to guide yourself through a Color Mending session.
Work with Chelsea directly
Experience Color Mending Therapy with expert interpretations and guidance.
Perfect if you want: Deep insights with the creator of the tool, faster breakthroughs, or group learning experiences.
profession Licenses
Licensed tools, guides, and activities for therapists, counselors, and coaches.
Perfect if you want: A body-based experiential tool to suggest to clients who struggle to verbalize feelings and process emotions.
Color Mending® Therapy is a simple two-process to help you understand what your body is telling you without talking, shame spiraling, blaming others, or rehashing the past.
First, you color. Then, you use the Color and Shapes Charts to decode what you colored.
That’s it. It’s that simple.
What people are saying
—amber, Colorado
“Color Mending helps me release stuck emotions and move forward instead of staying trapped in my head - it's like meditation but way easier!”
—Robert, Florida
“It’s given me and my 5-year-old son an easy way to talk about big feelings. It's the first thing that's helped us understand each other better.”
—Sara, Colorado
“As a school counselor, having a tool to use when my students don’t want to talk is incredibly helpful. This tool has helped me build trust with my most reserved students.”
—Andrea, Utah
“As an MSW, it’s been instrumental in helping me confirm that what we’re doing in therapy is what my clients need most.
Why this works when other Tools don’t?
Color Mending is based on the Theory of Constructed Emotion—the scientific understanding that emotions are information your brain creates to help you stay balanced.
When you color out what you're feeling, you:
Bypass your analytical mind (that keeps you stuck in loops)
Access body wisdom (that knows what you actually need)
Get clear insights (about what's really going on)
Take meaningful action (instead of just understanding)
Developed over 6 years with 250+ people. Backed by neuroscience. Simple enough for kids, powerful enough for adults.
Color Mending Therapy Is…
An approach that lets you express emotions without words
A safe way to explore all emotions without judgment
A detective kit for uncovering why you feel certain ways
A tool to understand your own emotional language
A practice to help you name and express emotions productively
Color Mending Therapy is not…
Only a tool for creative or artistic people
A way to diagnose or label mental health conditions
A complex art therapy technique. It is simple and accessible for all ages
A replacement for mental health services. It complements, not substitutes
An activity that is only useful for tough times or bad days
Emotions are clues, not rules
This core principle guides everything we do in Color Mending - helping you see emotions as valuable information for creating the life you truly want.
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