Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Did you catch last week’s episode? We talked all about the benefits of running high school counseling small groups. This week we’re continuing on the small group trend and exploring ways to get student buy-in for these groups. Deciding to move forward with
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Between the endless paperwork, phone calls, emails, and some more paperwork, there may be days when you feel like you don’t actually get to ‘do counseling’. But there’s one thing that always fills my bucket and reminds me why I love this job
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Let’s jump back into talking all about facilitating small groups in the high school setting! It’s time to talk strategy with your small group counseling topics, ideas, and services. If you missed the first part of this extended episode, check out Part 1
Even if we don’t currently run small groups in our high school, we can probably determine a few benefits of small group counseling in our school’s setting. It can be stressful and frustrating to try to get counseling small groups on the calendar because of our limited time and required
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: How confident are you in facilitating high school counseling small groups? Do you just feel stuck when it comes to jumping in and getting your small groups off of the ground? What about seeing them through from beginning to end? Are you fearful
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: Are you new to this whole small groups at the high school level thing? Wondering where to even start? Here are 3 ideas for starting high school counseling small groups from scratch in your school and other tips for how to avoid the
Are you a school counselor at a high school that doesn’t believe in small groups? Is your administration against the facilitation of small groups? Do you get push back from your teachers? I bet you’re wondering how to successfully introduce small group counseling to your school… without shaking things up
Here’s What to Expect In This Episode: In Episode 8, I’m talking about 3 ways to find success in high school counseling small groups BEFORE you even get started. This episode will give you a few ideas to consider to lay some ground work before you put a high school
Small group counseling often gets overlooked especially in the high school setting. Small groups take the most strategic planning of any of our initiatives and involve the most preparation (in my opinion). Oftentimes, we don’t have the capacity to plan new things because we can’t even find time for the
One of the biggest roadblocks to running high school counseling small groups with students (besides lack of time) is getting these students bought in. How do you find the right students for the groups? Once you’ve found them, how do you get them excited to participate? Once you run a
I’m your high school counseling hype girl serving other high school counselors who are burnt out, spread thin, or creatively stumped so that they can breathe new life into their school counseling program and remember why they loved this job in the first place.
