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Before the school year starts, school counselors need more than a new planner. These four decisions can help you protect your time, clarify your role, and stop taking on everything.

Four Decisions to Make Before the School Year Starts

Feeling overwhelmed before the school year even begins? Learn how sanity-based school counseling helps you make better decisions, work within real-world constraints, and build a sustainable counseling practice without sacrificing your impact.

Why You Need Sanity-Based School Counseling

Many school counselors think they’ve lost their confidence, but research suggests something different. Learn why resource depletion leads to silence, what conservation of resources theory explains about advocacy, and how to begin finding your voice again.

When Good School Counselors Go Quiet

Many school counselors begin the year with big plans, only to feel overwhelmed by October. Discover why traditional planning often fails and learn a practical approach to building a school counseling program that fits your strengths and your campus reality.

You’re Planning Your School Counseling Program Backwards

Most school counselors can describe their job responsibilities. Far fewer can explain what makes them remarkable. Learn why identifying your unique strengths matters, how it impacts your effectiveness, and three practical ways to uncover what sets you apart.

What Makes You a Remarkable School Counselor?

AI mental health chatbots are becoming more common in schools, but should they replace school counselors? Learn what the research says about AI counseling tools, student mental health, and the role of school counselors.

The Student Mental Health Bot Nobody Asked For

More than 1,000 school districts are suing social media companies over the impact of social media on students and schools. Learn what these lawsuits reveal about school counselors’ growing workload and why documenting social media-related interventions matters.

Social Media Drama Just Got a Price Tag

What happens when a school counselor puts a popular, “evidence-based” anxiety curriculum to the test? Discover why worksheets, printables, and polished resources may not be delivering the change students actually need.

I Broke My #1 School Counseling Rule (Here’s What Happened)

School counselors are being handed “evidence-based” tools that look clinical but often lose the actual counseling underneath them. Here’s why that matters for students, for outcomes, and for the future of the profession.

Is It an Intervention, or Theatre?

School counselors are often treated like support staff instead of strategic mental health professionals. Here’s what that means for your role, your voice, and the future of school counseling.

When They Want Your Spreadsheets, Not Your Insight