The stories your hardest conversations need — ready to practice, in two languages.
My Brave Friends — Counselor Edition is the full story library, including the topics a
family app should never surface on its own: parental incarceration, immigration worry, trauma
responses. Those stories exist because children live them — and they belong in the hands of a
trained adult who decides this child, this story, today. That adult is you; the license is the gate.
What the license includes
The Counselor Edition at counselor.mybravefriends.com — every story, including the sensitive-topic library, first-person and bilingual (EN/ES), with narration. New commissioned stories join the library over time at no extra cost.
All five consumer apps — My Brave Friends, My School Story, My Brave Words, My Fast Brain, My Whole Story — with every premium feature, including the full Grown-Up Practice series.
IEP-aligned progress reports — days practiced, first-attempt accuracy, turnarounds after a redirect, vocabulary retention, mood check-ins; printable and CSV-exportable, phrased for measurable objectives.
Printables with a professional-use license — use them across your whole caseload.
Teacher notes for every story — the concept, the script, and the follow-up rehearsal in one page.
Unlimited child profiles on your device — one license covers your entire caseload, which renews every year; your license simply keeps working.
Where it fits — with your care, not instead of it
Everything here is a practice tool at Tier 1 — a way for a child to rehearse a skill and find
language, alongside their real goals and your clinical judgment, never in place of them. The children
who need more need a clinician like you; this is built to make that work easier, not to replace it.
Assign it between the moments that matter. The rehearsal a session doesn't have time for — before a hard conversation, or after one — that a child can practice on their own.
Pairs with what you already run. An IEP goal, an MTSS Tier 1–2 plan, a counseling caseload, or a teletherapy program — this is the culturally-grounded practice layer that sits beside it, in English and Spanish.
No outcome claims, ever. We never say it treats, reduces, or improves anything. It rehearses a moment and gives a grown-up language to reach for — and every proposal we send says exactly that.
You can see the rigor
Consumer star ratings don't tell you whether a children's app is any good — a review of more than 300
kids' apps found no correlation between ratings and expert-judged educational value. You don't have to
take our word for it; the standard is readable behind every story.
CASEL-mapped. Every story names its competency and sub-skill and a measurable EN/ES objective — so it lines up with the framework you already use and you can defend the pedagogy in a meeting.
A deliberate method, not a token economy. A real moment → the child chooses → a gentle redirect if the first choice isn't the kind one → they rehearse the better response. The turnaround after a redirect is the skill we're building.
Reports are practice records, not surveillance. Frequency, first-attempt choices, turnarounds, mood check-ins — phrased alongside IEP-objective language. They show a child's growth to you, and are never fed to a discipline system.
Pricing
PractitionerFounding rate — first 50 practitioners
$149/yr first year
Then $199/yr. One clinician — counselor, SLP, OT, social worker, or educator. Unlimited child profiles.
Small team
$749/yr
Up to 5 practitioners at one clinic or school. One invoice, one renewal date, a license key for each seat. Purchase orders welcome.
Building
$2,400/yr
One building, all staff, on a purchase order. Includes onboarding for your counseling or SPED department. More than one building? Tell us how many and we will quote it.
Need a story your caseload doesn't have yet? We build commissioned stories — bespoke, bilingual, illustrated and narrated — from $2,500. We take a small number each year so each one gets the attention it deserves. Commissioned stories join the Counselor Edition library unless you purchase exclusivity. Ask about a custom story →
Buy a practitioner license
Sign in with your email. Grown-ups only — we never create accounts for children.
The five apps are unlocked now. Sign in with this same email in any Sanders Learning app — progress reports, printables, personalization and the full Grown-Up Practice series are available immediately.
The Counselor Edition arrives by email within one business day. It lives at a separate address and is password-protected on purpose — the sensitive-topic stories are meant to reach a child through you, not through a search result. We send the address and password by hand.
Nothing after one business day? Email support@sanderslearning.com — or use the form below. Your license is already active either way; this is only about delivery.
Paying by purchase order instead? Use the form below and we will invoice you — no card needed.
Request access, or pay by purchase order
We reply within two business days with your license key and a short onboarding note. Payment by card or purchase order.
The fine print, plainly
Everything Sanders Learning makes is a practice tool, never therapy or treatment — stories rehearse
skills; they do not diagnose or treat. The sensitive-topic stories are third-person, carefully worded, and
never ask a child about their own family; when and whether to use one is always your professional judgment.
Children never have accounts. Child progress data stays on-device unless an adult signs in to sync it;
see the privacy notes.