Plan Individual School Counseling Sessions with Counseling Maps
Plan individual school counseling sessions using skills checklists and a counseling map so you can be responsive and focused.
ReadAbout This Resource
Planning individual counseling sessions can be overwhelming. It can be hard to know where to start and where to go. Anxiety Counseling Map and Skills Checklist can help.
The Anxiety Counseling Map and Skills Checklists are designed to help counselors develop structured and individualized plans for working with anxious students. They provide a roadmap of essential skills to teach, like self-awareness and problem-solving, along with checklists to track student progress.
What’s Included
Anxiety Skills Checklists
Skill checklists are tools that identify specific skill gaps in seven key areas: psychoeducation, self-awareness, self-management, goal setting, mindset, problem-solving, and social connection. These checklists allow for targeted skill development and facilitate communication of student progress to other team members. The checklists are customizable, allowing for adding or removing specific objectives.
Skill Areas: Psychoeducation, Self Awareness, Self Management, Goal Setting, Mindset, Problem Solving, Social Connection
Counseling Map for Anxiety
A sequence of 17 possible sessions covering all missing skills. Your map for a specific student would be smaller than this and focused only on what that student needs.
PDF and Editable PowerPoint files are included.
How to Use
This comprehensive counseling map includes more than you need to cover with one student. I suggest building your own using this as a starting point and eliminating what isn’t necessary.
To do that, use this map alongside the included Anxiety Skills Checklist. On the Anxiety Skills Checklist, eliminate the skills your student has mastered (in and outside of counseling) and determine which skills are a priority. Then, return to the Counseling Map and adjust the sessions to include those skills. Choose skills you can teach together and consider which skills must first be introduced. The sequence I have laid out is flexible.
The tables are editable, so I suggest making a master copy for reference and creating an individualized copy for the student’s file.
Parts of the Counseling Map
Counseling maps are where a curriculum map meets a treatment plan. They give you a guide for the skills that need to be taught, just like a curriculum map, but with the flexibility to individualize like a treatment plan.
The counseling map has a sequence of 17 sessions. Each session includes a feelings check-in, a warm-up, goal-focused activities, usually an exit ticket, and a cool-down exercise.
What do your sessions include? Standard routines can give a student a sense of predictability and safety. Add your counseling routine to each section, or use my flow.
FAQ
Are there counseling maps for other topics?
Check here for all the counseling maps that are currently available. If you have a suggestion for another topic, email me at laura@socialemotionalworkshop.com
Are there activities included?
The counseling maps include possible ideas you could use but do not include any direct student materials. You pick and plug in your favorite activities to address the skills.
Who is this for?
This resource is perfect for school counselors, social workers, and psychologists who see anxious elementary and middle students for individual counseling.