Your School's Pressure Valve Has a Name. It's You.

School for School Counselors Podcast · Mar 16, 2026 · 24m

You said yes… then suddenly it was your job.At some point in your career, something changed.You stopped being the person students came to see and started being the person students got sent to.Behavior referrals. Classroom removals. Crisis containment. The emotional labor nobody else knew how to handle.And it happened one "yes" at a time.In this episode, I'm taking a hard look at how school counselors slowly became the system's pressure valve- justified by "trauma-informed care"- and why that shift has fundamentally changed what we're asked to do in school counseling.We'll talk about:Where…