Are you searching for a summer experience that combines fun, connection, and evidence-based support for anxiety or OCD?
Then Playful Warriors is the place for you! Playful Warriors is a therapeutic summer camp designed to help children, tweens, and teens build confidence while learning evidence-based Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) strategies to reduce OCD and anxiety. Through the powerful and engaging tool of play, participants learn how to face challenges, strengthen self-esteem, and enjoy more of their summer.
In a fun, supportive, and structured camp environment, experienced mental health counselors lead individual and group-based therapeutic games and activities that gently encourage youth to step outside their comfort zones. Each day includes a thoughtfully designed mix of individual and group exposures, social challenges, and play-based learning experiences aimed at reducing OCD and anxiety symptoms while building real-world coping skills.
This summer, Eastside Play Therapy and Polaris Family Behavioral Health have joined forces to create an immersive, evidence-based summer camp that blends play, connection, and effective treatment for anxiety and OCD—helping each child become a confident, playful warrior.
Then Playful Warriors is the place for you! Playful Warriors is a therapeutic summer camp designed to help children, tweens, and teens build confidence while learning evidence-based Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) strategies to reduce OCD and anxiety. Through the powerful and engaging tool of play, participants learn how to face challenges, strengthen self-esteem, and enjoy more of their summer.
In a fun, supportive, and structured camp environment, experienced mental health counselors lead individual and group-based therapeutic games and activities that gently encourage youth to step outside their comfort zones. Each day includes a thoughtfully designed mix of individual and group exposures, social challenges, and play-based learning experiences aimed at reducing OCD and anxiety symptoms while building real-world coping skills.
This summer, Eastside Play Therapy and Polaris Family Behavioral Health have joined forces to create an immersive, evidence-based summer camp that blends play, connection, and effective treatment for anxiety and OCD—helping each child become a confident, playful warrior.
Feedback from past years
Feedback from prior campers and families:
- 100% of campers from 2025 recommend the Summer Intensive
- 100% of campers from 2025 will consider coming back in 2026
- 100% of campers from 2025 recommend the Summer Intensive
- 100% of campers from 2025 will consider coming back in 2026
Being with other kids who also have OCD and hearing what their anxieties and compulsions are [was helpful] - Parent of a 2025 participant
