The responsive counselor

If you're looking for some advice as you go into your first year, here are my words of wisdom for a new school counselor.

Elementary group counseling is a great way to provide targeted support to lots of students. 4 ways to be more intentional so your groups are more effective!

Starting off the year (or even just the quarter!) with your curriculum already mapped out? Huge time saver! This FREEBIE is a yearlong counseling curriculum map for K-5th grade with 16 social-emotional learning lesson ideas listed for each grade level. Love this but want it EDITABLE? Find that here: School Counseling Curriculum Maps EDITABLE […]

So you finally landed the job out of grad school and are ready to start as a School Counselor. Congrats! It's a difficult profession but you will make a difference in the lives of children, hooray for you! Here is a list of things I wish I knew as a first-year Counselor to hopefully help you.

The Invisible String is used a lot for grief and loss - it's also an amazing book for end of the year counseling lessons!

Need to present to your faculty about the role of the school counselor? Want to educate staff about school counseling? I’ve done all the work for you with this school counseling presentation for faculty and staff! All the slides are complete and ready for your edits to make it the perfect fit for your school. […]

This resiliency group counseling curriculum is awesome for helping students deal with whatever life throws their way. It works as a changing families group for students experiencing life changes such as: foster care, divorce or separation, re-marriage or blended families, incarceration, deployment, deportation, moving, death, etc. It’s also great for students impacted by sticky life circumstances or kiddos just needing some […]

Snowball fight is a super engaging activity to use with students of all ages. Who doesn’t enjoy crumpling up paper and throwing it?! *I know some folk are averse to using the phrase “snowball fight” because the word fight connotes violence. I get it. At the same time, my students have never become violent while […]

One of my biggest strengths (and weaknesses) is that I’m outspoken. There’s not much in the realm of school counseling that I don’t have a strong opinion about. That means there’s some things that are commonplace among other counselors that I don’t do – because they just aren’t in the best interest of my students. […]