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First Counseling Session Activities

First Counseling Session Activities

$6.00

Made for: Individual Counseling and Small Groups

Grade Level: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8

File Format: PDF and PPTX

Total Pages: 24+

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Digital Download. No physical product will be shipped.

About This Resource
The first counseling session is ideal for establishing rapport, understanding the student's perspective, and creating a safe, predictable space. Build a strong first session and get students started on the right foot! Individual counseling is meant to be personalized, but your first counseling session is mostly the same for every student. Use this effective set of activities and make it your own.

This resource will help you: 
  1. Introduce your role
  2. Build rapport
  3. Create a safe, predictable space
  4. Understand the student's needs
  5. Set goals

What's Included?

  1. About Counseling Script
  2. Session Planners and Summaries (editable)
  3. Intake Materials: Form (editable), Student Prompts, Sentence Stems
  4. Student Check-Ins: Feelings, Rose-Thorn-Bud, Goals
  5. Goal Exploration Worksheets
  6. Cool Downs: Box Breathing, Intention Setting
  7. Exit Tickets (editable)
An editable PowerPoint file of select components is included.

All color materials are also in black & white.

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Reviews

Customers praised this counseling resource as "must have" and "super helpful" for first sessions. Counselors appreciate the variety of activities, editable forms, and intake questions that help build rapport with students. Both new and seasoned professionals find it saves time and improves organization.

  • Must have resource for counselors! Very helpful for my sessions
  • It gives great direction for where to start in a first session with students.
  • Super helpful to keep myself organized as a self-proclaimed type B therapist!
  • 5 stars: 15 (83%)
  • 4 stars: 3 (17%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
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Clarissa W.
Great 1st session resource

This is a great resource to have with those first session meetings. It helps to get to know the students and what they want to get from the meetings.

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Counseling in Paradise
Must have resource for counselors

Must have resource for counselors! Very helpful for my sessions

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School Counselor Eryka
Great Start!

This resource is super helpful for new counselor getting set up, it is a great way to get started.

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Staci R.
Great resource

I used this packet to give me some resources to use during my formal observation for Practicum.

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Sheri F.
Very handy resource

This looks like something I will use daily. I appreciate the varied types of resources in this packet so I can choose what I want to use. I am a seasoned counselor, and even I like to change things up and do something new once in a while. I think these forms will make me even more organized.

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Alexa C.

Super helpful to keep myself organized as a self-proclaimed type B therapist! Love this resource!

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Chrissy C.

Thank you very much! My students loved this resource!

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Jessica M.

Great resources to use with my counseling students. Appreciate having something to grab VS reinventing the wheel. Appreciate the editable option!

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School Counselor Alexa

This is great! It gives great direction for where to start in a first session with students. I really like the intake questions. It allows me to play a "get to know you" game while asking questions that reveal helpful answers in counseling. Thank you!

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The County Counselor

Wonderful resource for my school counseling program!! Thank you : )

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Milithza M.

This gave me a very simple way to introduce myself and create notes and build a relationship with my students.

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Heather T.

This is full of fabulous ideas to use when working with kids one-on -one. A useful tool I will come back to over and over!

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Corie H.

A lot of different options to meet the needs of a range of students. Great to the initial meeting and building rapport with the students.

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SEL with Danielle

This is an incredible resource, thank you so much!!

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Michele R.

This is a great resource for counseling sessions. I really like the forms.

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Lorena H.
Counseling First Session

I absolutely love this resource!! It's been super helpful! I would highly recommend!

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Sandra H.

Wonderful resources for individual sessions!!!!!!!!!

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Rebecca H.

First school counselor and this helped so much!!! Thank you!

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