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Robyn Coughlin

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

About Robyn

Robyn is a clinical social worker in California who creates engaging counseling resources at Mental Fills.

Chatting confidently about

Expertise

CBT Interventions
Private Practice
DBT
Crisis Intervention

Experience

Psychiatric Social Worker
Mental Health Therapist
Curriculum Writer

22

years of experience


K - 8

California


Education

MSW Social Work, San Diego State University
LCSW

Articles from Robyn

Relational aggression can quickly take up a lot of a school counselor’s time and leave young girls frustrated and hurt. ...

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How do you manage relational aggression?

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

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Conversations: Students Struggling with Grief during the Holidays

Addressing Cutting Behaviors Cutting and other non-suicidal self-harm behaviors are signs of situations in need of immediate attention. School counselors ...

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Conversations: Addressing Cutting and Self-Harm

Do you have something in your office you can’t live without? I don’t mean the drawer of candy. I mean ...

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What Can’t You Live Without in Your School Counseling Office?

  Managing behavior referrals often fall under the realm of school counseling.  However, most school counseling programs have few, if ...

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Managing Disruptive Behavior Referrals

  We all want to say that we are great at what we do. I believe we all do our ...

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Suicide Prevention Best Practices

Creating a Culture of Kindness I recently saw a video on Facebook about two apples. Two apples you are probably ...

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Creating a Culture of Kindness

Teaching & Encouraging Growth Mindset Growth mindset, from Dr. Carol Dweck, is a revolutionarily simple yet often misunderstood concept. Teaching and ...

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Growth Mindset: Tips for School Counselors

School counselors work each day to help students develop the social skills to not bully, to help when they see ...

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Preventing Bullying: Tips for School Counselors

School counselors serve as experts on school-wide approaches to prevent bullying and encourage a positive school climate. Check out how some ...

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School Wide Bullying Prevention and School Counselors

Small group counseling can be a useful and effective intervention in a school counselor’s repertoire. But, woah can they be ...

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16 Tips for Organizing and Running Small Group Counseling

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

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10 Back to School Tips for School Counselors

STOP, DROP, ROLL and CONNECT I want to share a few helpful strategies I have found useful in managing negative ...

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Strategies for Managing Negative Attention Seeking

Following the positive response of “Five Ways To Use Tissue Boxes in Counseling,” I wanted to share additional ways I ...

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5 Ways to Use Lunch Bags in Counseling and Therapy

  Inspired by reading Counselor Keri’s “Five Ways To Use Coffee Filters In School Counseling,” I excitedly went through my resources ...

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5 Ways to Use Tissue Boxes in School Counseling

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