24. Trust Your Journey With Indra Owens Counselor Chat podcast

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As counselors, we support several different grade levels, students with various learning abilities, and families with diverse backgrounds. It’s rewarding work, but it’s also challenging to meet the needs of so many students. For many of us, it feels even more challenging in this post-COVID climate.

Our guest and seasoned counselor, Indra Owens, focuses on empowering families to navigate the challenges of the post-COVID era. Indra believes in combining theory and practice to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and families, and she's here to share her insights on how school counselors can build resilience and create authentic relationships with their students.

Indra is the curator of the Trust Your Journey Project. The premise is to redefine Mental Health & Mindfulness awareness, advocacy & support in Urban communities, and building resilient families. Using the conceptual framework to: engage, educate, empower & equip & providing easy to use strategies, tools and resources to navigate in today's virtually charged climate. Indra is a School Counselor in Atlantic CIty, NJ and was the 2020 NJ School Counselor of the Year.

Topics Covered:

The story behind the Trust Your Journey Project
Advice for counselors who want to help redefine mental health and mindfulness awareness
How you can teach kids to reframe their thoughts
Infusing theory and practice to best support our students, especially post-COVID
Indra’s best tip for new school counselors
Why you should be invested in your own professional development

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