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by Nicole Batiste

Therapeutic Art: Counseling through Creating

If you’re like me, you have a diverse caseload of kids that learn the social-emotional skills we want to teach


As a school counselor or other mental health provider in a school, you rarely have the resources to see students in individual

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Time to stock your counseling office (or classroom or closet) with some tried and true school counseling supplies. Most of these suggestions

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As virtual counseling becomes an increasingly common part of modern practice, many counselors are seeking engaging, free tools and games to enhance

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Counselor Chats

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Making The Most Out Of Non-Counseling Duties

In a perfect non-counseling duties would not be part of our schedule. There can be an upside to tasks that do not require our advanced degrees. Keep reading to see how three Confident Counselors make the most our of non-counseling duties.Build RelationshipsAny non-counseling duty can quickly become a chance for building authentic relationships with students


Do you practice gratitude as a school counselor? Purposefully taking time to express thanks and appreciation for others as well as yourself

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Once we have forgotten how great sleeping in feels, we believe this is the best time of year. The slate is wiped

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Holidays can be a hard time for students who have experienced a loss. Following a death, divorce, or even after after moving,

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Counseling Activities with Everyday items

5 School Counseling Activities Using Toilet Paper Tubes

Laurie P Mendoza

  At Confident Counselors, we love using materials we have at school or home for school counseling crafts. We’ve used coffee filters and tissue boxes, and now we’ve found what to do with those empty toilet paper tubes. Writing a post on using toilet paper tubes for counseling activities required a great deal of self-restraint on my part. Do you know just

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 We at Confident Counselors are a thrifty bunch and love nothing better than to find new counseling activities that incorporate items we already have on hand. Last time I wrote ...

I admit I have always had a thing for rocks. I have collected my share over the years, and each time I go someplace new, I look for one to ...

If you're like me, you saw the gratitude tree in the Target dollar spot and grabbed it for a fun fall activity! But now that fall is over, are you ...

Management, Lessons, consultation

In the Classroom

Class Lessons, Counseling

15 Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress

Counselor Keri

During the second quarter of the school year, I started talking to my seventh graders about stress. We did a simple self-assessment and nearly all of my students were reporting high levels of stress about

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Do the students at your school need clarification about what bullying really means? Do they refer to any mean act as bullying? Maybe they keep severe bullying under wraps because ...

Creating a positive school culture is such an important step in engaging students in learning. Consistent and frequent kindness activities help build empathy, let students feel comfortable taking risks and ...

Bullying is something school counselors address in whole class lessons, small groups, individual counseling, and in quick emergency sessions. It is helpful to have books and resources for bullying prevention ...

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School counselors, social workers, and psychologists sharing their ideas and expertise.

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