What We Do

At Emerson, school social work and counseling services are designed to serve the social and emotional needs of young teens during the critical middle school years.

Counseling provides students with an opportunity to understand themselves in relation to their environment in school, at home, and among peers. Middle school students experience rapid physical and emotional changes, which can cause them to have conflicts with themselves and with those around them. This is a time where students strive to establish independence and develop a healthy sense of self.

We are available to help students appreciate their uniqueness, cope with school and life difficulties, and develop key social, emotional, and functional skills. Counseling staff work with teachers and administrators to develop behavioral interventions that maximize student success and to provide an emotionally safe place for learning and growing. We work directly with families to connect students with community resources and provide consistency across social environments.

We love that we loop with a particular class across the three years of middle school. We work with students individually and in small groups as well as provide classroom-based interventions to address a variety of age-appropriate topics, including bullying and online safety. We offer crisis intervention for at-risk students, ensuring students' psychological safety and well-being.