The MentalSpace School Podcast

By MentalSpace School

K-12 mental health for educators, school counselors, and families. New episodes three times a day from licensed therapists at MentalSpace School — teletherapy, onsite clinicians, live classes, and HB-... more

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September 18, 2026 Diabetes, Asthma, Epilepsy and Worry: Helping Anxious Students
A student with epilepsy can be fully prepared to manage a seizure and still spend every class worrying about having one in front of classmates.
That worry is easy to miss. Health plans cover medications, emergency steps, and nurse visits. They don't always cover what it feels like to be the kid who
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24min
September 12, 2026 When the First Progress Report Hits: Grade Anxiety at Home and School
Progress reports went home this week. If things got tense at the kitchen table, you're not alone.
Parents, a few ways to make the conversation useful instead of scary:
Start with curiosity. Ask 'What do you think happened in this class?' before you share what you think.
Find the one fixable thing
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25min
September 07, 2026 What Changes When a Therapist Team Knows Your Building
What does a school mental health partnership actually change day to day? Fair question, and it deserves a concrete answer rather than a brochure.
Here's the honest before-and-after.
Before, a counselor identifies a student who needs more support than a school building can provide. She gives the fa
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23min
September 06, 2026 The Student Who Won't Talk: Culture, Stigma, and Silence in Therapy
There's a word that gets used too easily in school mental health: resistant.
A student comes to sessions, answers in three words, doesn't open up. Somewhere along the line that becomes 'not ready for counseling,' and the case quietly closes.
But sit with what that student might be carrying into th
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19min
September 05, 2026 When a Parent Says No to School Counseling: What to Do Next
To the parent who got a call from the school this week and felt your stomach drop:
That call is usually not what you think it is.
When a counselor reaches out about your child's mood, or attendance, or something a teacher noticed, they are not telling you that you've done something wrong. They're
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22min
September 03, 2026 Can I Tell You Something? The First Five Minutes After a Disclosure
Most student disclosures don't happen in the counselor's office. They happen to whichever adult the kid decided was safe — the third-period teacher, the coach, the paraprofessional who says good morning every day.
That adult usually has about five minutes and no training for this exact moment. So h
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21min
September 02, 2026 When a Student Comes Back After a Death
A student loses a parent in September. Week one, the building does everything right — a card, a quiet room, a check-in from the counselor. By week three, everyone has moved on. Except the kid.
That gap is where school grief support usually breaks. Not from indifference. From not having a plan past
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24min
August 30, 2026 When the Therapist Gets It: Fit, Trust & Follow-Through
There is a note that shows up in student files everywhere: family declined services.
Sometimes that is exactly what happened. Often it is shorthand for something more specific that nobody wrote down.
A composite example. A family is referred, they go once, and they do not return. The file says dec
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22min
August 29, 2026 The First Call Home: Why Caregivers Hesitate
When a parent says no to counseling for their child, they are almost never saying no to counseling.
They are saying one of these, and they usually do not say it out loud:
What is going in his record? Fair question, and the answer matters. Counseling notes are protected health information. They are
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20min
August 28, 2026 10:40 AM: What Happens After a Student Discloses
A crisis plan you have never rehearsed is not a plan. It is a document.
Here is the honest test for any school building. A student discloses something serious to a teacher at 10:40 on a Tuesday. Can every adult in your building name, without looking it up, who they contact, who stays with the stude
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How many episodes does The MentalSpace School Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 217 episodes available.