Spring 2025
Subtext: Deep reads and Deeper Feels
A bibliotherapy workbook that helps avid readers process the emotional rollercoasters they experience when reading a powerful story. Although feeling attached or connected to books is not a new phenomenon, with the increasing growth of booktok and bookstagram subcultures, there is a community that finds healing in having shared experiences through these best-selling authors. There is a prescient need within these communities for coping strategies, desire for escapism, and filling gaps in daily satisfaction with media consumption.
From burntout educators, unfulfilling partnerships, adults who have carried on their fantasy reading obsessions from childhood, and all those who enjoy that trip to the bookstore, more and more individuals are looking to books for this healing. We may have found a sense of belonging through shared readership, but what about understanding the self? Subtext offers the reading community an opportunity to engage in deep self-discovery and healing using books they already own, re-read, or have waiting for them on their shelf, without the financial and time constraints of traditional clinical therapies.
Summer 2025
Read the room: Subtext for classroom engagement
Derived from Subtext: Deep Reads and Deeper Feels, Read the Room takes on the same skills of thought and emotion identification and applies it to build empathy and understanding within a classroom community. Designed to work with many frameworks like Building Assets and Reducing Risks (BARR), Advancement Through Individual Determination (AVID), as well any level of curriculum including Advanced Placement and Honors Courses, STEM, Art, Langauge Arts, and Elective courses, Read the Room helps develop a student’s connection with the curriculum and their peers by developing emotional intelligence and empathy.
In addition, Read the Room works particularly well with BARR “I times” or MTSS interventions by providing a systemic way to gather data specific to student disengagement. Data gathered can be processed to help inform behavior modification strategies in any individual, group, or classroom setting.
Clubtext: Subtext for the book Club
Derived from Subtext: Deep Reads and Deeper Feels, Clubtext takes on the same skills of thought and emotion identification and applies it to book clubs of different intimacy levels. It provides discussion prompts for book clubs to help build deeper connections through shared experiences. Rooted in circles, Clubtext provides guidelines to facilitate safe spaces for conversations of varying difficulties.
Fall 2025
Services
Individual
Tiered mental health services to support mental health issues, challenges, or disorders. Ranging from as needed conversations to clinical level counseling.
- Consultations- For those who have no idea how to navigate mental health settings
- Conversations- Tier 1, for mental health issues
- Coaching- Tier 2, for mental health challenges
- Clinical Counseling- Tier 3, for mental health disorders
Group
Groups can be self assigned or assigned at random. Self-assigned would require a group of people who know each other to register together. Assigned at random are for those who register independently and will be randomly assigned a group or offered individual sessions depending on numbers.
- The Book Club, a bibliotherapy group
- The Considerate Club, an identity exploration group
Classroom
Courses available in the following topics:
- Understanding stress
- Microaggressions and mental health
- Multicultural Identity and core beliefs
- Thoughts, feelings, and emotions
- Self-regulation and burnout
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