What We Do

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

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.

Confidentiality is important to the counseling process.  Both students and adults who work with counselors must feel that their concerns are being held in confidence.  Confidentiality is not maintained when a student may harm him/herself or others or is being harmed by someone else.

• Students can refer themselves by seeing the counselor.  

• Parents may refer their child by calling or e-mailing the counselor.

• Staff members may refer a student when they observe that problems are interfering with a student’s learning.