Individual counseling activities

This is something new that I've started in my individual counseling sessions. It serves a few purposes - it helps me gather data on how effective the sessions are, helps students self-reflect, and wor

Pick up a brush and put down your worries with these 20 art therapy activities that you can try at home, today.

Therapy worksheets include a combination of thought-provoking identity development, feelings and needs identification, goal setting, asking for help, and self-care planning questions that assist in fostering self-esteem and improving wellbeing. Each worksheet that may be used for individual, group c...

2nd Grade Writing Worksheets are a great way to get children thinking in a communicative way. When we communicate we tell a story. Much of our communication is an expression of action, emotion, direction and of course the details. In order to reach others, we typically use words. And written words are so very important. […]

I've been having a hard time lately with some of the older kids I see. They don't see the point or the importance of what we are working on. I have been very frustrated, and our sessions have been less than productive. In desperation, I turned to Pinterest, and came across some UNO activities. I figured - what could it hurt? We aren't getting anything done anyway! Well, it was no less than MAGICAL!!! My most difficult student didn't want to come see me, but I asked him to give me just 10…

At our facility, we LOVE playing Jeopardy games because it's easy to accommodate a large group with. I believe that Jill Sederberg, CTRS ...

One of my goals for my second semester of my internship was to track student growth in individual sessions. To do this, I created two forms to use with the older students at school. I print out the assessment on half sheets of paper and measure the lines to exactly 10 cm. How To Use Progress Charts: 1. Student circles current feeling 2. Student marks each line depending on how they are feeling about each area (scale between terrible and great) 3. Measure the length of the line at the point…

With Thanksgiving heading our way, I love to do things to remind my kids of the many blessings we have. There is so much in our lives to be thankful for. I created this little Gratitude Game to play with them, and we have been having loads of fun with it! What is The Gratitude …