School counselors work with students, teachers, and parents to assist students in the following areas:

Interpersonal Skills

• • To learn appropriate social skills

  • To learn how to appropriately express feelings

  • To learn conflict resolution skills

  • To learn how to cooperate within a group

School Success Skills

• • • To develop a positive attitude about school and learning

    • To learn how to set goals and priorities

    • To be academically successful

Career Awareness

• • • To understand and value the world of work

    • To understand the correlation between interests, abilities and occupations

Community Involvement

• • To appreciate one's home, school, and community and to be a positive contributing member of one’s environment

Students who need support in addition to classroom counseling lessons may be candidates for individual or group counseling sessions with the school counselor.  School counseling services are designed to be short-term (typically no more than six to eight sessions) and are not intended to be therapeutic in nature.  Rather, school counseling is designed to respond to the social-emotional needs of students so they can successfully access their education.

Some of the more common counseling topics include: self-image, growth mindset, peer relations, communication skills, responsible decision making, coping with change, responding to stress, coping with family changes, and self-regulation.

Teacher Consultation

In addition to providing direct classroom instruction, the school counselor assists and consults with teachers in areas such as: response to intervention, guidance related activities, group dynamics, behavior management, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, student assistance team efforts, special school-wide activities, and special committees.

Parent Consultation

The school counselor is available to all parents of our students. Some of the areas in which we may work together are: new student orientation, home school relations, helping students achieve success academically, personally, socially and in a future career, self-esteem building, parenting strategies, responding to crisis, and referrals to community agencies.