Practical Tips and Books for Helping Children Cope with Anxiety
Time and time again I have found that kids really benefit from using bibliotherapy techniques. Bibliotherapy is the strategy of using...
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- Jul 24, 2021
- 12 min
Everything You Need to Know About Tension, Stress, and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®)
I recently went through a medical event that was traumatizing. In some ways, the experience reminded me of having anaphylactic shock,...
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- Jul 13, 2021
- 13 min
Helping Children Sleep Well and Cope with Nightmares
So often, when children start kindergarten, by mid-afternoon, many of them look EXHAUSTED. It’s a long day to learn to adapt to! And if...
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- Jun 26, 2021
- 6 min
SMART Social-Emotional Counseling IEP and Treatment Goals and Objectives
Let’s discuss S.M.A.R.T. social-emotional and counseling IEP goals and treatment plan objectives. These goals can be hard to write since...
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- May 24, 2021
- 7 min
Anxiety in Children: Symptoms, Signs, and How to Help
As educators and mental health practitioners, it is important to understand the symptoms of anxiety in children. According to the CDC...
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- May 17, 2021
- 7 min
Helping Children Cope with Anticipatory Grief
I keep circling back to grief and loss because my world has been rocked by my losses. I think of death and loss every day. Not in a...
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- May 4, 2021
- 8 min
Kid's Nutrition Tips from Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Shawna Hughes
I have multiple food intolerances and as an adult I developed anaphylactic food allergies. One of the reasons I studied to become an RN...
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- May 1, 2021
- 7 min
How to Create a Grief Box or Comfort Kit for Kids & a Building Block Grief Intervention
Building Block Grief Counseling Intervention Gen Judayna, LCSW was kind enough to share this awesome activity with our readers! She also...
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- Apr 8, 2021
- 7 min
Perspective Taking: The Social Skill You Want to be Teaching Kids
When teaching social skills to kids, you typically start with teaching self-awareness skills before moving to social awareness skills,...
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- Feb 19, 2021
- 4 min
The Creative Kindness Project: a compassionate, caring way to spread kindness to others
I am so excited for this guest post by Sarah Ness, PhD because she created The Creative Kindness Project and I know your clients and...
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- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
Does Drawing While Listening Help Memory and Attention?
I recently saw a picture that said “I listen better when I draw” and it really struck a chord with me! I remember getting spoken to...
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- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
Kindness Sprinkles with Edgar the Egg: Character Trait Lesson
When you were a kid, do you remember learning about character traits, such as being kind? I don’t remember these concepts being...
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- Dec 8, 2020
- 6 min
Using a Green Screen: the Creative Therapy Intervention You Don't Want to Miss!
When I saw this video with Amy Nelson, LCSW, RPT, of Emotional Milestones I felt so inspired and re-energized! I ordered a green screen...
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- Nov 3, 2020
- 12 min
More Fun, Games, and Telehealth!
In May I put out this blog post about some of the creative, playful ways I was working with kids and using telehealth. I wanted to update...
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- Oct 27, 2020
- 5 min
10 Distance Learning and Telehealth Self-Care Tips for Educators and Counselors
I started writing another follow-up blog post on additional creative telehealth activities, but I put that on the backburner for a moment...
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- Jun 6, 2020
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Resources for Talking to Children About Racism
The first thing I want to share is this book, Something Happened in Our Town: a Child's Story About Racial Injustice is a great starting...
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- May 20, 2020
- 10 min
Fun, Games & Telehealth
In the early 2000’s I took one of my first courses on ethics and counseling and I wrote a paper about “e-counseling.” At the time I had a...
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- May 12, 2020
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Creating a Coping Skills Plan: with a Free Printable for Kids!
We all have different feelings that come and go all of the time. Some children, teens and adults may become overwhelmed with BIG...
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- Apr 23, 2020
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Helping Kids with Big Worries
I love using books in counseling, which is an intervention called bibliotherapy. Now that I am learning to navigate telehealth and doing...
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- Mar 28, 2020
- 9 min
Helping Children & Teens Cope with Grief & Loss
Grief is so hard to deal with and due to the COVID-19 pandemic our worldwide community is going to be dealing with a lot of grief and...
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- Mar 24, 2020
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Feeling Overwhelmed with all the Resources & Juggling work and kids at home?
There are so many free resources and information coming at me lately, whether it is in my email or on social media, many people will be...
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- Mar 22, 2020
- 4 min
Helping Kids Cope in Uncertain Times
It is no surprise that there is an increase in global anxiety and stress for many people because we are dealing with a worldwide pandemic....
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- Mar 21, 2020
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Teaching 6 Foot Social Distancing to Kids
How to Teach Social Distancing to Kids We were on a family walk today and my sons were scootering along with us. There were some kids...
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- Mar 19, 2020
- 4 min
Cleaning Printable and Teaching Life Skills to Kids
Are You Stepping Up Your Home Cleaning Habits Amidst COVID-19? Ann Landers wrote that “it is not what you do for your children but what...
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