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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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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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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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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August 27, 2026 Why Families Say No: The Cost Conversation Nobody Has
Parents, let's take the awkward part first: what does this actually cost?
When a school counselor suggests counseling for your child, that suggestion usually arrives with no price attached. So most families do the reasonable thing and assume the worst, then quietly let the referral die. We would ra
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August 26, 2026 Who Holds the Helpers? Secondary Trauma in Schools
A question for principals: who is holding your holders?
In most buildings there is one adult students gravitate to in a crisis. It is rarely the person on the org chart. It is the teacher whose room feels safe, or the paraprofessional who has been there eleven years, or the front office staffer who
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August 25, 2026 The 6:45 AM Stomachache: School Refusal in Real Time
Educators, you already know this student.
He is not defiant. He is not skipping. He is the one in the nurse's office at 8:15 with a stomachache that is completely gone by 10, three days a week, since the second week of school.
School refusal is avoidance driven by distress, and it tends to announc
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August 19, 2026 Nobody Asks the Principal
To the principals and assistant principals still in the building tonight:
You absorbed a bus incident, a crying first-year teacher, a hard family call, and a district deadline, and you did it without letting any of it show. Then you stayed late because the quiet hour is the only hour.
Burnout at y
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August 19, 2026 It Starts at 11pm, Lands in 3rd Period
A question we get from assistant principals more than any other: what do we do when it happened online, at night, off campus?
The honest answer is that the location of the phone is not the location of the harm. A group chat at 11pm becomes a cafeteria at 11am. The building inherits it either way.
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August 19, 2026 The 72 Hours After Fall Break
Fall break re-entry has a rhythm to it, and most buildings feel it on day three rather than day one.
After a week off, sleep schedules slip, peer groups reshuffle, and academic demand comes back all at once. In a real school that shows up as clinic visits for stomachaches with no clear cause, tardi
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August 13, 2026 Why Coaches Move the Needle for Athletes
Two-a-days are underway. Something else started at the same time, and nobody's charting it.
Fall sports stack a lot onto one teenager: a body that's constantly sore, a coach's approval that starts to feel like identity, a roster spot that never feels secure, and six hours of practice on top of a fu
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The podcast currently has 210 episodes available.