Visual Coping Tools

The skills don't stop
at the door.
Now neither does the support.

What a buddy teaches in the moment — grounding, breathing, emotional awareness — needs a way to stay visible when the moment passes. Lakunakai® Visual Coping Tools keep the skills in the room. On the wall. In the space where the next hard moment will arrive.

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Visual Coping Tools in a clinical setting
Lakunakai® branded — same characters, same skills Designed for clinics, schools & therapy spaces Reinforces the Prepare › Regulate › Process cycle Keeps coping skills visible between sessions Bulk & B2B pricing available Ships Canada & USA Lakunakai® branded — same characters, same skills Designed for clinics, schools & therapy spaces Reinforces the Prepare › Regulate › Process cycle Keeps coping skills visible between sessions Bulk & B2B pricing available Ships Canada & USA
Purpose: Reinforce

The work doesn't stop
when the session does.

Coping skills build through repetition. When the same language and the same characters that a child knows from their buddy show up on the wall of their classroom, their clinic room, or their bedroom — the skill stays active. The support compounds.

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Keep skills visible

A visual reminder in the room means the skill is always within reach — before the overwhelm arrives, not after. Children and adults return to what they can see.

2

Create consistency across settings

The same Lakunakai® characters and the same coping language appear at home, at school, and in clinic. What one professional starts, another can reinforce — without starting over.

3

Support without prompting

A visual on the wall does not need a professional to activate it. It works quietly, constantly — in the space between sessions, in the moment before someone remembers to ask for help.

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Support doesn't need to be held or explained. Sometimes it just needs to be seen.

— Lakunakai®

On the role of visual tools in everyday regulation

Where they work

Built for the spaces where
the hard moments happen.

Visual Coping Tools are designed for real environments — the ones where regulation matters and a plush buddy is not always practical.

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Clinics & hospitals

Waiting rooms, treatment rooms, paediatric units. A familiar face and a visible skill change the feeling of an unfamiliar space.

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Therapy spaces

Keeps the skills introduced in session visible between appointments. Reinforces the language without requiring the professional to be present.

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Classrooms

SEL support that lives on the wall. The same characters children know from their buddy — now part of the everyday environment.

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Home

Bedrooms, playrooms, family spaces. A quiet reminder that the skills are always there — even when the moment arrives without warning.

The Reinforce stage

Prepare. Regulate. Process.
And then make it stick.

The Supportive Little Buddy prepares and regulates. The Doctor Play Set prepares and processes. The Journal processes and releases. Visual Coping Tools do something different — they keep everything visible, consistent, and present. So the next time a hard moment arrives, the skill is already in the room.

The range

Each one carries a skill.
Each one carries a character.

Every Lakunakai® Visual Coping Tool features one of the four buddy characters and the coping skill they represent — so the visual language stays consistent across every tool in the ecosystem.

More visual tools are in development. Tell us what you need ›

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Equipping a clinic, school
or therapy space?

Visual Coping Tools are designed to work at scale. Whether you are outfitting a single room or an entire organisation, we want to hear what you need — and find the right fit for your environment.

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We will be in touch within 2 business days to discuss what works best for your setting.

Part of the full cycle

Visual tools reinforce
what everything else started.

Supportive Little BuddyRegulate

Supportive Little Buddy

The buddy teaches the skill in the moment. The visual tool keeps it visible after. Same character. Same language. Now on the wall of every space the child moves through.

Find their buddy
Buddy KeychainReinforce

Buddy Keychain

For settings where a wall visual is not enough. The keychain clips to a lanyard, bag, or backpack — keeping the same skill and the same character close, wherever the next hard moment finds them.

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Interested in the full professional toolkit? Learn about the Pilot Program ›

The skill is already there.
Now let the room remind them.

Visual Coping Tools keep Lakunakai® skills visible, consistent, and present — in every space where a hard moment might arrive. For individual rooms or entire organisations.

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