Mindfulness BINGO is a great way to teach coping mechanisms, relaxing techniques, and give students a break in their day to just breath. With 10 boards, this game is perfect for a small classroom or counseling group! Students can even take their boards home for quick reference to the skills they learned! Prizes for winning can include fidgets, mindfulness cards, and other little games/tools to decrease stress and promote a healthy mental health lifestyle. Combine the 10 and 20 player boards…

Helping kids with poor emotional regulation or anger management is tough! Here are some counseling ideas and activities to help support them.

There's never enough time in school counseling. Never enough time to plan and prepare, never enough time to meet with students, never enough time to

Whatever you call it: morning meeting, advisory time, or homeroom, as educators we know that it’s an important start to our students' day. In the middle school classroom, it can be particularly important as it’s a time that can be used to teach necessary life skills like relationship building, self-esteem, grit, etc. Below are 33 of our favorite homeroom ideas that include simple and fun activities that’ll not only get your students excited for the day ahead, but will also foster a strong…

two fun games to use in classroom guidance lessons or small group counseling to teach and practice self control strategies -Counselor Keri

Here are some great ideas from Big Life Journal if you are feeling strong emotions in public:

Use Jenga in your school counseling lessons and small groups to help students learn about and practice different social emotional skills. This game is an easy way to teach about social skills, self-control, and more. Jenga is easy to add to your counseling lessons and kids love getting to play the fun game. There are different ways to use Jenga to address whichever social emotional learning topic you are teaching!

Kids of all ages love playing games! School counseling games are no different! Kids of all ages seem to enjoy a game one-on-one or even if it’s skill’s based. I like to incorporate games into my small groups, individual and classroom lessons. Over the years, I have accumulated quite a big selection and I wanted to take some time to share a few of my favorites!

I'm Ann Meehan, an LPCC, ​RPT-S ™ , and EMDR Consultant. I help therapists that work with kids and teens go from a place of stress and survival to inspired and thriving. I give child therapists...

Planning is a Key to Success Collect Information about the Student WAY Before Your First Counseling Session Before ever meeting your new counseling student, there are several steps that you must take. A good therapist or counselor is highly prepared and has all of the needed information. Collecting information from both the student’s teacher(s) and […]