Looking for a fun and meaningful activity for your school counseling worry group? Help your students make a worry monster! Get details here:

This post was originally posted back in 2015 on my blog and has been a popular post since that time. I worked for a decade as a family counselor and elementary school counselor before staying

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Fawning — also called please-and-appease — is a trauma response that can have deep impacts on your relationships and your sense of self.

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Kids and young adults need social-emotional skills to be successful at school, home, and for the rest of their lives. These are the skills that help kids build confidence, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, collaborate with others, navigate social situations, develop strong relationships

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One of the most important things I always do following any break is review our classroom procedures and expectations. This is usually about the time of year when my kids start feeling VERY comfortable with me, and we all start getting a little lax on procedures and rules. Unfortunately, allowing one little thing to slide...

Our brain is especially fast in the early stages of life. Techniques we present here can promote your child's development and help you bond with your child.

Evidence-based interventions are possible for the busy speech language pathologist by visiting ASHA's web site and browsing the evidence maps!

A list of games to develop theory of mind concepts in your students. This concept is a critical one for perspective taking and empathy.

My child glanced back at me, and then reached over and grabbed your hand and kissed it. You smiled down at her and I could read your mind. “What a sweet and loving child”. I also knew …

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Feelings thermometers are the perfect counseling tool. They are reusable and research-based. They should be the workhorse of a school counselor's office.

These 18 short videos about empathy help kids build their own empathy muscle, and understand others' perspective and experiences.

The window of tolerance is the optimal zone of arousal that allows you to function and deal with the demands and stress of life. Learn how to recognize the symptoms you experience when you dysregulate and how to self-regulate when you do.

Teach kids self-regulation in the classroom and beyond with this collection of super fun Zones of Regulation activities, games, worksheets, and lesson plans!

Mindfulness seems like a buzzword in the counseling world, but it's because it's something our students are really needing help with. A mindfulness bulletin board was our solution after our needs assessment this year showed that our high school students are majorly stressed out (no surprises here). They need help with soft skills like time management, study skills, and stress management.

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Worry Activity: Meet the Worry Whale - a kind and gentle creature who will share your burden when you are feeling worried! This resource includes a printable story and printable PDF story that describes worry & 3 strategies for managing worry in the moment and introduces the worry whale. Students can write their worries on a fish and feed them to the worry whale! This is great for the school counseling office or a calm down corner in the classroom. Need more worry resources? You'll love these! ❤️ Managing Worry and Anxiety Classroom Guidance Lesson for School Counseling ❤️ Worry Warriors: Group Counseling Program for Managing Anxiety and Worries ❤️ Worry/Anxiety Management Lap Book for Elementary School Counseling Terms Copyright © Counselor Keri, Keri Powers Pye. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clip-art and font credits.

Hi friends, I have had multiple ideas of posts I have wanted to share with you all about preparing for teaching in middle school, so I decided to combine them all in to one HUGE post :). This post really came to be because, in my true nature, I am not a middle school teacher ... Read more

It must be that time of year. State testing is over. Convincing students that we still have work to do is getting increasingly difficult. It's dig deep time. Good students are getting detention. The sweetest teachers are