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Brandy Thompson

Counselor, Author

About Brandy

Brandy is a middle school counselor. Her counseling department was awarded the RAMP award from ASCA for excellence in counseling. Before counseling, she taught 2nd, 4th, and 8th grade at a K-8 school. I am passionate about creating resources that are engaging and have an element of fun to them. My husband and I also run a small farm with our three kids, two llamas, 2 pigs, 12 chickens, 3 cats and two dogs.

Chatting confidently about

Expertise

Middle School Counseling
Social Emotional Learning

Experience

School Counselor
Classroom Teacher
Curriculum Writer
Presenter

17

years of experience


Middle School

Tennessee


Education

BA Psychology
MAT Education
MS Counseling

Articles from Brandy

Parent buy-in for counseling services can be challenging in many communities. Some parents comes with preconceived ideas about counseling and ...

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How do you get parent buy-in for counseling services?

High stakes state testing can generate a lot of anxiety for students and adults alike. Counselors are uniquely prepared to ...

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Test Anxiety: Activities and Ideas That Help

Classroom guidance lessons can be tricky. You are not in each classroom frequently enough to develop consistent routines, every classroom ...

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Spice Up Your Classroom Guidance Lessons

In a perfect non-counseling duties would not be part of our schedule. There can be an upside to tasks that ...

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Making The Most Out Of Non-Counseling Duties

A school counselor's relationships with the teachers in their building is so important for student success. These ideas from Chelsey, ...

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How do you build relationships with teachers?

Winter break is a great time to recharge and do some purposeful self-care. Taking this time can help you shift ...

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What Self Care Activity Are You Doing Over Winter Break?

At some point, you will have to call Child Services on a family due to abuse or neglect. This is ...

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Working With Families After Calling Child Services

We asked Stephanie of School Counselor Stephanie and Brandy of The Counseling Teacher to share how they introduce the school ...

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Ways to Introduce the School Counselor’s Role to Students and Staff

As a school counselor, being organized and efficient can make your days run smoothly and your program run stronger. School ...

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School Counselor Planners for Staying Organized

What's on your summer to do list? I always have to take a step back when my list gets to ...

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School Counselor Summer To-Do List

Testing season can be a time of stress in schools for students and teachers. It can be hard to maintain ...

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Build Positive Attitudes During Testing Season

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?

February is a great time to incorporate kindness activities with Valentine’s Day and Random Acts of Kindness Week.   Do ...

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What Kindness Activities Are You Incorporating This Month?

It is important that students make social-emotional progress and our lessons and counseling sessions are supposed to help them get ...

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Conversations: How do you use goal setting in counseling?

You know you should be incorporating self-care. You know you can’t pour from an empty cup. Sometimes it just takes ...

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What is Your Go To Self Care Activity?

Develop Systems and Work with Others Triaging requests for assistance helps me from feeling overwhelmed by the high number of ...

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Conversation: How do you handle requests for assistance around the holidays?

  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

It’s March already?! When did that happen? During this time of year, we inevitably see a rise in test anxiety for students and staff ...

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Supporting Students with Test Anxiety

What do school counselors do? As professionals, we are continually answering this question as we advocate for our profession. To ...

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School Counselor: Advocating for Your Role

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

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