A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Psychotherapist. Inside: 42 scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 22-word kid-friendly glossary, five pre-reading activities, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and health and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core, the C3 Framework, CASEL, and National Health Education Standards 2, 3, and 4. No counseling background required — the activities run on index cards, paper, colored pencils, and a timer, and every scenario in them is fictional by design. Designed to flex from a single-week unit alongside a health or SEL block to a longer three-week study that ends with students designing a calming space for their own school — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year: the listening activity inside a communication unit, the feeling-words ladders inside vocabulary, the biography project alongside a civil rights unit. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the fifty minutes and the ten after them, the silence a new therapist rushes to fill and the question that arrives better for the wait, the girl who said hate and found the word fear, the whole victory being the client who walks out and does not look back. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling a subject that reliably prompts students to think about their own lives, and on the historical and personal material in the biography chapter — with concrete instructional moves, including knowing your building's referral protocol before the unit begins and giving students a private route to reach you.