Individual Counseling

Therapies, techniques, resources and ideas for providing individual counseling and therapy for students. Creating a safe, caring and confidential environment for one-on-one work.
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Group Counseling Activities and Ideas
Read this blog post to get some great tips and advice your group counseling sessions! These ideas will help create better routines, build relationships amongst your students, and proactively plan what skills your reinforce within your group session! Get these tips and school counselor advice here!
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How to Use Sand Tray in School Counseling
Curious about how to use sand tray in your school counseling office? Read some ideas here! Sand tray counseling prompts for kids, sand tray storage and organization, miniature suggestions, etc.
School Counseling Office Tour: Round One
School Counseling Office Tour: Round One - The Responsive Counselor
School Counseling Office Tour: Round One
Child Counseling Strategy
Quick counseling strategy to use with students experiencing intrusive thoughts - the elephant trick!
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Resiliency Activities and Group Curriculum
Hands-on resiliency activities for individual counseling or group counseling
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Restorative Practices Behavior Reflection Think Sheet Behavior Management Tool
This a Restorative Practices behavior and choices reflection sheet for students to use when they have broken a rule/failed to meet a school expectation. It is particularly powerful when someone else was harmed due to their actions. Includes: think sheet, editable PPT for teaching its use to students, and scaffolding instructions and examples to help students complete it independently.
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Individual Counseling Tools
As a school counselor, we aren't just sitting and talking to our students, so it's important that we have tools and resources that will support our lessons and activities! Read my post to get a list of tools and resources you can use during your individual counseling sessions. Not only am I sharing my favorite tools, but I'm also sharing how I use them and what activities they pair well with!
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School Counseling Self-Referral
As a school counselor that supports other school counselors, I frequently get asked about setting up a self-referral system for students, and what that management looks like! In this blog post, I'm answering all of your questions that include everything from how to set up a self-referral system to introducing it to all students and grade levels. Plus, learn more about the classroom teachers role with self-referrals, how to identify students that are using it to get out of class work, & more!
I'm sharing 6 things to teach your elementary students about anxiety. Read this post to learn everything from the basics of teaching kids what worry is and worry words to digging deeper and connecting with why we worry. Emotion Identification, Emotional Vocabulary, Middle School Counselor, Digging Deeper, Responsive Classroom, Guidance Lessons
Anxiety in Kids
I'm sharing 6 things to teach your elementary students about anxiety. Read this post to learn everything from the basics of teaching kids what worry is and worry words to digging deeper and connecting with why we worry.
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Restorative Practices Behavior Reflection Think Sheet Behavior Management Tool
Restorative practices are an incredible tool for developing a positive class culture, helping students have more empathy, and increasing positive behaviors. These differentiated behavior reflection think sheets, posters, and more are aligned with restorative practices and are easy for students and teachers to use.
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Behavior Intervention
My Behavior Intervention Guide is a great resource for elementary school counselors, MTSS behavior teams, or other educators that need support implementing tier 2 and tier 3 behavior interventions. My resource has 3 different lenses to conceptualize behavior and behavior support. This resource can also be used proactively and reactively with students. Get access to my Behavior Intervention Guide today!
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School Counseling Self-Referral System - The Responsive Counselor
One of the most important parts of your school counseling program is your self-referral system. This post explains how to teach students about self-referring for counseling and problem solves some issues and logistics that may come up.