Rapport building activities

I like to have simple board games on hand for individual sessions, especially when I am pulling students who didn’t ask to see me themselves {but rather were referred by their parents or teac…

Tons of Counseling worksheets, games, and resources to help you with Counseling Elementary and Middle School students. Resources for Counseling and School based therapy are easy to use and fun for students. Several rapport building games to chose from for both in person and teletherapy counseling.

When I first started off as a therapist I was so eager to jump into “fixing problems” it would quickly make my students uninterested in meeting with me pretty quickly. I have completely changed my approach (after a quick learning curve) and focus my first few sessions building rapport with students FIRST & FOREMOST. Relationships are the KEY to cultivating healing in students. Here is a list of some of my favorite “Get to Know You” activities to do with new students!

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Students can get to know one-another virtually!

Questions to ask Children-You can find many websites with lists of questions to ask children. These are a few that I have used in building rapport at my practicum.

This is a work sheet I designed for when I have a first therapy session with a child. It allows for me build rapport, get to know the basics, and to explore a couple in-depth items, such as fears and worries. Hope you enjoy and find this useful!:

My very own conversation Jenga. Super easy to do!

This pin looks at 6 ways to help build rapport when meeting someone new

I like to have simple board games on hand for individual sessions, especially when I am pulling students who didn’t ask to see me themselves {but rather were referred by their parents or teac…

Check out these 11 confidence-building activities for kids. Through activities focused on responsibility, self-esteem, responsibility, belonging, and self awareness, students will feel more confident. School counselors and classroom teachers can use these activities. They are perfect for elementary students.

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Getting to know you fortune teller craft for a fun back to school activity! Kids can make their own personalized fortune tellers or use pre-made ones.

Enough to break the ice! One of the first steps of counseling is building a positive rapport with the student. It is important for students to feel safe and trust the counselor as they begin to work together. There are a number of ways to establish positive rapport, but here are a few of my favorite tools. The Question Cup I have a plastic cup full of Popsicle sticks with various questions. The student and counselor each pick a certain number of sticks and both participants answer the…

Multicultural Counseling Workbook: Exercises, Worksheets & Games to Build Rapport with Diverse Clients: Leslie Korn: 9781559570404: Amazon.com: Books

Here at SCM, we talk a lot about the importance of building rapport. And how it's best to focus on your entire class rather than individual students. Because, trying to build rapport one student at a time is . . . time consuming awkward for students less efficient and effective Simply being pleasant, on the