The COVID-19 pandemic has led to counselors searching for free games and tools for virtual counseling sessions. Although the pandemic has led to many challenges, one positive aspect is that counselors have been expanding their
Paws-itive School Counselor
Resilience is one of my favorite topics to teach and one of my favorite small groups to run. I always ...
The Responsive Counselor, Social Emotional Workshop and Speckled Moose Counseling
Ever feel like your group and individual sessions can feel a little too loose? A little unplanned? Using routines during ...
The Counseling Teacher, Counselor Chelsey and EduKate & Inspire
Parent buy-in for counseling services can be challenging in many communities. Some parents comes with preconceived ideas about counseling and ...
Social Emotional Workshop
As a school counselor or other mental health provider in a school, you rarely have the resources to see students ...
Confident Counselors
Positive thinking can be the difference between a student persisting with a challenging activity and stopping too soon. As counselors, ...
Paws-itive School Counselor
School counseling book clubs in elementary school are some of my favorite twists on a classic small group counseling. I ...
Counselor Chelsey
Although our work as school counselors can be very rewarding, it can also be frustrating! One of the things I ...
Confident Counselors
Organizational skills are important to a student's success at any age. That said, it can be a bit of a ...
Counselor Keri
During the second quarter of the school year, I started talking to my seventh graders about stress. We did a ...
Speckled Moose Counseling
Do you ever find yourself in need of quick and easy group counseling activities? Of course, you do. It’s easy ...
Confident Counselors
Self regulation is a key skill for students (and adults). As school counselors, we have a great opportunity to target ...
Counselor Chelsey
Halloween is coming! Which at my house means there is a lot of excess candy lying around that I can’t ...
Counselor Keri
One box I can always count on being checked on the needs assessment is ☑WORRY. Our students are coming to ...
Confident Counselors
Enter your text here... Sometimes group members are resistant to participating in the group sessions. It is important to address ...
Mrs. Bell The Crafty Counselor
Facilitating fantastic small groups is one of my favorite parts of being a school counselor. Small groups offer opportunities for ...
Counselor Chelsey
Are you frustrated with anger management? Teaching anger management strategies to kids used to leave me frustrated. Ironic, isn’t it? ...
Confident Counselors
Julia Cook, former school counselor and children's book author, has a new book out. This time she is giving us ...
Counselor Keri
I don’t know about you, but my counseling grad program didn’t spend a lot of time focusing on whole classroom ...
Carol Miller Counseling Essentials
Struggling with ways to get students engaged and participating in group counseling? Discussion starters are a great way to hook ...
Counselor Keri
Pipe cleaners are one of my go-to craft supplies for the counseling office. They’re so versatile, easy to store, and ...
The School Counselor Is In
At the end of every school year, I ask my sixth grade students to reflect back on all the classroom ...
Confident Counselors
What is your favorite school counseling anxiety resource? Testing season aside, students are experiencing record rates of anxiety. School counselors ...
Confident Counselors
Testing season can be a time of stress in schools for students and teachers. It can be hard to maintain ...
Social Emotional Workshop
How you start group counseling sessions sets the tone for the next 20 to 40 minutes. You can spend that ...
Counselor Keri
If you’re a counselor in an area with a dense military population, you’re acutely aware of the ongoing military engagements ...
The Responsive Counselor
Target’s Bullseye’s Playground (did you know that’s the real name for what we all call the “dollar spot”??) is great, ...
The Counseling Teacher
Empower students to escape negative thinking traps by guiding them to reframe negative thoughts. Once students identify these cognitive distortions, ...
Confident Counselors
How often do you grab the Ungame off the shelf? What about Uno or Jenga? We know who wins that ...
Little Miss Counselor
Who loves dominoes? No, I don’t mean the pizza but the traditional game with black dots on white rectangular game ...
Confident Counselors
Relational aggression can quickly take up a lot of a school counselor’s time and leave young girls frustrated and hurt. ...
Counselor Up
What kid doesn’t love a game? What kid loves a lecture? When planning my counseling lessons, I like to think ...
Speckled Moose Counseling
A day in the life of a school counselor is never easy. We never know what’s going to come our ...
Nicole Batiste
If you’re like me, you have a diverse caseload of kids that learn the social-emotional skills we want to teach ...
School Counselor Stephanie
One of my professional goals for this year is to keep refining my school counseling support groups. To do this, ...
Confident Counselors
Small group counseling is an essential part of a school counselor’s role, and boy is it tough. Facilitating useful small ...
Counselor Chelsey
Mindfulness is popping up everywhere nowadays. As a school based counselor, teaching students to focus on the present moment and ...
Confident Counselors
Incorporating technology in school counseling can really engage students, but sometimes it can be hard to figure out how to ...
Counselor Keri
If you’re like me, you saw the gratitude tree in the Target dollar spot and grabbed it for a fun ...
Informed Decisions
The start of the new year is the ideal time to reflect and begin setting goals for the remainder of ...
Paws-itive School Counselor
A counselor friend of mine recommended the Weird! book series by Erin Frankel to me and I am so glad she did. ...
Confident Counselors
It is important that students make social-emotional progress and our lessons and counseling sessions are supposed to help them get ...
Counselor Keri
Gabi Garcia, author of Listening to My Body, just published another book that is a great addition to any counselor’s ...
EduKate & Inspire
Creating hands-on counseling lessons can be easy and inexpensive. You can often find inspiration by looking through your junk drawers ...
Counselor Keri
Tall tales, little fibs, or flat out lies: how do you work with students who stretch the truth? While some ...
Carol Miller Counseling Essentials
Let’s face it, kids are used to having worksheets and templates and preprinted note pages, but sometimes I don’t have ...
Confident Counselors
Holidays can be a hard time for students who have experienced a loss. Following a death, divorce, or even after ...
Social Emotional Workshop
Creating a positive school culture is such an important step in engaging students in learning. Consistent and frequent kindness activities ...
Confident Counselors
What do you share with parents, teachers or your administration about a student’s progress or participation in school counseling services? ...
Laurie P Mendoza
We at Confident Counselors are a thrifty bunch and love nothing better than to find new counseling activities that ...
Carol Miller Counseling Essentials
As school counselors, it’s easy to talk to students about things that are bugging them, help with problems they are ...