15-Minute Counseling Techniques that Work: What You Didn't Learn in Grad School

As counselors, we spend our days helping kids. Kids come to us with a variety of problems, searching for answers. They want us to listen. And they need us to give them solutions for the issues they are facing.

While these solutions may work temporarily, we really never help kids until we give them tools — or techniques — to manage thoughts and feelings on their own. Our job is not to do it for them. Our job is to teach them ...