About Playzenkits

You're Not Alone in This Journey

When a child faces grief, loss, trauma, or overwhelming emotions, parents and therapists often feel stuck. You want to help, but the right words don't always come. Traditional talk therapy sometimes falls short with younger children who can't yet articulate their deepest feelings.

That's where therapeutic play becomes powerful.

Meet Katrina Butler

Katrina Butler has spent over 35 years working with children and families across educational therapy, counseling, and play therapy. Through her practice, The Butterfly Effect, she has supported thousands of neurodiverse and neurotypical children as they navigate emotional and developmental challenges.

Her experience revealed a consistent truth:

Children process emotions best through play — especially structured, therapeutic, evidence-informed play.

This form of play supports emotional regulation, expression, resilience, and deeper healing than words alone can offer.

Why We Created Playzenkits

After decades of working with children, Katrina saw a clear gap in Australia:

There were no single-source, evidence-informed, play therapy kits designed for both professionals and families.

  • Therapists were piecing together materials from multiple suppliers.
  • Parents were unsure where to start.
  • And many people were forced to order expensive international play therapy kits with long delivery times and high shipping fees.

Children needed accessible tools that supported play therapy, emotional regulation, trauma-informed practice, and developmental wellbeing — without the overwhelm.

Playzenkits was created to bridge that gap.

What Makes Playzenkits Different

Every kit is designed from real clinical experience — informed by the needs of actual children in counseling, educational therapy, and play therapy sessions. These aren’t generic toy bundles; they are professionally curated, evidence-informed therapeutic play resources that:

  • give children safe, symbolic ways to express emotions

  • support child-centred, trauma-informed, and neuro-affirming practice

  • help develop emotional regulation, communication, and resilience

  • provide parents with structured tools they can confidently use at home

  • meet the needs of psychologists, counselors, OTs, social workers, teachers, and NDIS providers

Our Commitment to You

At Playzenkits, we believe every child deserves access to therapeutic play resources that support emotional well-being. We are committed to creating neuro-affirming, evidence-informed, child-centred kits that align with best practice in play therapy, counseling, and emotional regulation.

Because the support you need — the tools, the guidance, the understanding — should be accessible, intentional, and created with care.