Behavior, Collaboration

Social Emotional Workshop

Responding to Escalating Behavior with a Coordinated Team Response

Every year there are students with challenging behaviors that disrupt, well, everything. Daily crises take over your schedule and they ...

Responding to Escalating Behavior with a Coordinated Team Response

Counseling

Social Emotional Workshop

What routines do you use in counseling?

Ever feel like your group and individual sessions can feel a little too loose? A little unplanned? Using routines during ...

What routines do you use in counseling?

Collaboration, Your Program

Social Emotional Workshop

Tips for Working with a Co-Counselor

Working with a co-counselor can be such a wonderful part of our jobs. We have someone who understands our job's ...

Tips for Working with a Co-Counselor

Individual Counseling, Popular Posts

Social Emotional Workshop

Keeping Individual School Counseling Short-Term

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

Keeping Individual School Counseling Short-Term

Behavior, Popular Posts, Your Office

Social Emotional Workshop

Creating a Calm Corner In Your Counseling Office

If you have space, a calm corner is a great addition to your counseling office. It provides a safe place ...

Creating a Calm Corner In Your Counseling Office

Group Counseling

Social Emotional Workshop

How to Start Group Counseling Sessions

How you start group counseling sessions sets the tone for the next 20 to 40 minutes. You can spend that ...

How to Start Group Counseling Sessions

Class Lessons, Counseling

Social Emotional Workshop

10 Minute Kindness Activities for the Classroom and Counseling

Creating a positive school culture is such an important step in engaging students in learning. Consistent and frequent kindness activities ...

10 Minute Kindness Activities for the Classroom and Counseling

Behavior, Individual Counseling

Social Emotional Workshop

Make Your Student Observations Comprehensive

​Student observations were regularly a part of my day as a school psychologist. For special education evaluations, I observed students ...

Make Your Student Observations Comprehensive

Counseling

Social Emotional Workshop

Why You Should Be Using SMART Goals in Counseling

SMART goals are incredible tools that can help you measure student progress and structure plans for counseling sessions. SMART Goals ...

Why You Should Be Using SMART Goals in Counseling

Uncategorized

Social Emotional Workshop

Confident Counselors is Turning One!

  Say Happy Birthday to the Confident Counselors Newsletter! Almost a year ago Confident Counselors began. It started with me ...

Confident Counselors is Turning One!

Parents

Social Emotional Workshop

5 Effective Ways to Support Families of Students with Autism

  Finding ways to more effectively support families of students with autism was one of the biggest sources of growth for me as ...

5 Effective Ways to Support Families of Students with Autism