Learn your language of emotions.
Learn your language of emotions.
Discover your unique language of emotions with Color Mending® Therapy - where colors become emotions and shapes reveal the deeper truths your body is trying to tell you
Transform your emotional world through coloring
Color Mending Therapy is an innovative method that transforms how you understand and process emotions. Unlike traditional talk therapy, this approach uses intuitive coloring to help you express feelings that may be difficult to put into words.
Based on the Theory of Constructed Emotion and backed by neuroscience research, Color Mending helps you decode your body's signals by translating sensations into colors and shapes. This creates a visual language that reveals patterns, triggers, and pathways to emotional regulation.
Developed over 6 years of research with over 250 individuals, this method recognizes that everyone feels emotions differently - and that's exactly why it works.
Colors = Emotions
Shapes = Why You Feel Them
Your body already knows what it needs.
Color Mending simply helps you listen.
How Color Mending Works
Select your focus
Choose what you want to explore - a persistent sensation, recurring emotion, or life transition you’re navigating.
pick heavy or light
Think about your focus, then tune into your body. Does it feel heavy (challenging) or light (positive)?
Color it out
Take the heavy or light feeling and color it out using any color and shape that feels right. Stop when it feels complete.
Unlock insights
Use the Color and Shapes Charts to interpret your coloring and discover what the emotions are trying to tell you.
Who Color Mending helps
Children (Ages 4+)
✔ Who have big emotional reactions
✔ Who respond better to play than discussion
✔ Who are navigating big life transitions (moves, new siblings, changing schools)
✔ Who are neurodivergent and need alternative approaches
Adults
✔ Who feel emotionally stuck or overwhelmed
✔ Who are navigating major life changes
✔ Who have difficulty expressing how they feel
✔ Who are resistant to traditional talk therapy
Professionals & Caregivers
✔ Mental health professionals seeking new, innovative interventions
✔ Occupational and speech therapists who focus on emotional regulation
✔ Educators supporting student wellness
✔ Parents and caregivers looking for new ways to connect with their children
Transform your emotional experience
Emotional clarity
Emotions feel different for everyone. Color Mending helps you learn YOUR language of emotions, and identify patterns you never noticed before.
Safe processing
Color Mending creates a judgment-free space to explore emotions. It helps you navigate and understand your internal world through gentle, non-verbal expressions.
Immediate insights
In one 10-minute Color Mending session, you’ll gain meaningful understanding about your emotional patterns. You’ll leave each session with clarity and concrete direction.
Self-trust building
Color Mending helps you develop unshakeable confidence in your emotional instincts and physical sensations, helping you trust yourself as your most reliable guide.
Lasting change
Break free from cycles of emotional reactivity by using Color Mending to help you update your brain's prediction patterns, creating permanent shifts in your wellbeing.
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!”
—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.”
—Rachel, Minnesota
“I’ve been using Color Mending Therapy with my 3rd-grade students. They love coloring out emotions and having me interpret their colorings with them. It’s always spot on!”
—Robert, Florida
“Color Mending gave me and my 5-year-old son a super easy way to talk about big feelings. It's the first thing that's actually helped us understand each other better.”
—Andrea, Utah
“As an MSW, Color Mending Therapy has been instrumental in helping me confirm that what we’re doing in therapy is what my clients need most.”
Meet Chelsea, the creator of color mending
From Emotional Numbness to Empowerment
Chelsea's journey began in 2016 when she could only identify 6 emotions: happy, sad, overwhelmed, angry, anxious, and depressed. After suppressing emotions for years due to cultural and religious conditioning, she found herself emotionally numb and seeking high-intensity experiences just to feel something.
Through her certification in The Integrative Processing Technique and 6 years of developing Color Mending with over 250 individuals, Chelsea discovered that traditional approaches often created dependency rather than empowerment.
Color Mending Therapy was born from her desire to create a tool that helps people stay present, understand their body's signals in real-time, and use emotions as empowering information rather than overwhelming experiences.
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.
Color mending in action
Parents use Color Mending with their children to help their child(ren) express difficult emotions through coloring, creating natural conversation starters that help strengthen their relationship.
Parents
Therapists
Therapists incorporate Color Mending as a non-verbal, adaptive strategy, helping clients learn how emotions feel in their bodies while providing insights that validate treatment focus areas.
Educators
Teachers use Color Mending as a classroom tool that helps students explore emotions without words, creating a safe space for emotional expression while building self-regulation skills.
Where to begin
Start Here
FreE!
Perfect for people coloring for the first time!
This activity will guide you through coloring about something that is currently triggering you.
You’ll discover what your internal world is trying to bring to your attention, and leave with an action to help bring regulation to your mind and body.
Includes the Color Chart and detailed emotion definitions.
Go deeper
$39
Ready for the full Color Mending experience? This step-by-step guide teaches you the complete 4-step process used by people around the world.
You’ll identify what to color, tune into your body signals, turn the signals into shapes and colors, then interpret what your coloring represents.
Includes both the Color and Shapes Charts - the complete toolkit for learning your language of emotions.
Master the method
$145
Dive into the science behind Color Mending in this 2.5 hour, on-demand masterclass.
You’ll leave with a solid understanding of how our brains construct emotions and why learning how we feel emotions is essential.
Includes the Color and Shapes Charts, and additional resources to advance your practice.
Professional licenses are available with this offer.
Get personal
$225
Experience Color Mending Therapy with personalized guidance from the creator, Chelsea.
These 45 minute virtual sessions provide immediate breakthroughs and insights tailored specifically to you. Chelsea will guide you through a coloring session, helping you uncover deeper meanings, and provide personalized regulation strategies.
Ideal for those seeking rapid transformation and wanting to experience the full depth of Color Mending. Sessions do not include copies of the Color or Shape charts.
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