About

Helping people find calm in stressful situations.

Zen-Kit creator Lisa Schweitzer has worked with children and families throughout the bulk of her career as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor/LMHC, Registered Play Therapist/RPT, art teacher, and foster parent.

Originally born in Long Island, NY, and currently a resident of St. Petersburg, FL, Lisa earned a master’s degree in counseling and was immediately drawn to the potential of Play Therapy. This unique form of therapy ignited her passion to provide kids and their families with useful techniques to help them find their calm in stressful situations. During her years as a private therapist, she created the Imagination Tray, a predecessor to Zen-Kit.

This idea evolved into the more portable Zen-Kit concept, but the core mission has remained firmly intact: to give children and families a fun, playful, easy way to find calmness when stress or anxiety begins to rise. Additionally, when you buy a Zen-Kit, you help fund donations to children in stressful places like shelters and hospitals. These kits ensure that every child has a personal tool to calm themselves when the world feels overwhelming, offering a small, playful reminder to take a breath and find peace anytime, anywhere. Given Lisa’s background, every aspect of Zen-Kit is carefully informed by the perspective and expertise of an LMHC and RPT for people of varying ages and abilities.

Beyond immediate calming, the larger goal of Zen-Kit is to strengthen neural pathways. Short-term, focused attention (approximately two minutes) has been proven to lead to a natural rewiring of the brain, making the act of calming oneself quicker and easier in the future.