Professional Development
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Research-informed professional learning designed to strengthen practice, support the whole child, and respond to the real needs of schools and the professionals who serve students.
Professional learning is most meaningful when it connects research with the realities of practice. Counseling Today offers customized workshops, webinars, learning series, and professional development experiences designed around the people, priorities, and needs of schools, districts, universities, and professional organizations.
Whether you're strengthening a school counseling program, exploring an emerging student need, supporting the professionals in your organization, or bringing new ideas into practice, professional learning can begin with where you are—and build toward where you want to go.
Professional Learning Designed Around Your Needs
No two schools, districts, universities, or professional organizations are exactly alike—and professional learning shouldn't be either.
Counseling Today professional development can be customized for the audience, setting, and goals of your organization. Experiences may stand alone as a focused workshop or webinar, or connect across a series of sessions to support deeper learning and continued application.
Each experience is grounded in research, shaped by practice, and designed to leave participants with ideas and resources they can actually use.
Professional Learning Topics
Professional learning can be developed around a range of topics connected to school counseling, whole-child development, student well-being, and the changing needs of schools. The areas below represent both established and emerging areas of Counseling Today’s work. Topics can be adapted or combined to meet the needs of a particular audience or setting.
WHOLE-CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Supporting the knowledge, skills, mindsets, relationships, and capacities students need to thrive.
CHARACTER, BELONGING & RESILIENCE
Creating intentional opportunities to strengthen belonging, integrity, resilience, and positive character development.
GRIEF-RESPONSIVE SCHOOLS
Helping schools respond thoughtfully and compassionately when grief and loss affect students, families, and staff.
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING
Strengthening school counseling programs, counselor roles, student supports, and alignment with school priorities.
STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING
Exploring practical, developmentally responsive approaches to student mental health, social-emotional needs, and well-being.
LEADERSHIP, ADVOCACY & SYSTEMIC CHANGE
Equipping counselors and educators to lead, advocate, collaborate, and respond effectively to changing school needs.
NAVIGATING POLITICAL, CULTURAL & SOCIAL CHANGE
Supporting professionals as they navigate complex issues while maintaining ethical, student-centered practice.
EDUCATOR & COUNSELOR WELL-BEING
Promoting sustainable practices that support the professionals who spend their lives supporting others.
Have Something Else in Mind?
Professional learning doesn't have to begin with a topic on a list. Customized experiences can be developed around an emerging need, organizational priority, or question your school or professional community is working to address.
