Counseling

Responsive Services Delivery & Access

The purpose of the responsive services component is to intervene on behalf of those students whose immediate personal circumstances, concerns, or problems interfere with their healthy personal, social, educational, and career development. Examples of topics generally addressed through responsive services are:

  • grief, loss, death and dying,

  • stress and anxiety

  • study skills

  • academic failure/success

  • death of a family member or friend

  • peer relationships

  • substance use

  • attendance

  • deployment

  • transitions

  • attending a new school

  • self-harm

  • threats

  • bullying

  • conflict

  • divorce/single parent households

  • school attitudes and behaviors

  • suicide prevention, intervention, and post-vention


Please Note: Counseling received at school is not a substitute for any professional counseling or therapy my child might need. Christie Dragoslavic will provide a mental health provider list to me upon request.

  • If you're experiencing a crisis, call 911 or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255.

  • StopIT can still be utilized as well to report bullying, harassment, or safety concerns: StopIt App

Individual Counseling

Group Counseling

Students, parents, and teachers can request to speak to the counselor. Students making a self-referral for counseling fill out the counselor pass located in each classroom. This allows students to practice self-advocacy and seek help when needed.

Individual School Counseling:

  • is limited to 3 - 6 sessions a year.

  • sessions range for 20 - 30 minutes per a session.

  • is not a substitute for any professional counseling or therapy my child might need

You can access this support for your child by contacting Mrs. Dragoslavic:

  • Phone - 469.633.3504

  • E-Mial - dragoslavic@friscoisd.org

  • Filling out the Pink Elementary Counseling or Conference Request Form below.

Your child can access the counselor at school by:

  • Requesting to speak to the counselor.

  • Requesting a counselor pass (pictured below) from the classroom teacher or the front office. The completed pass will be placed in the counselor's office. Mrs. Dragoslavic will set up a time to meet with the student.

  • Being sent by staff to see the counselor for support.

Multiple students of similar ages, who are dealing with similar issues are grouped together to work on shared tasks and develop supportive relationships in a group setting. Group counseling helps students overcome issues impeding achievement or success. It helps students identify problems, causes, alternatives and possible consequences so they can make decisions & take appropriate action. And, group counseling is planned and goal-focused and is short-term in nature.

Group counseling :

  • meets 4 - 6 times.

  • about 4 - 8 students of similar ages in a group.

  • meets for about 30 - 45 minutes

Examples of Common Types of Groups:

  • Changing Families

  • Dealing with Feelings

  • Making & Keeping Friends

  • Self-Control

  • Academic Readiness Behaviors / Study Skills

  • Social Skills

  • Grief and Loss

Please Note: If there are not enough peers of similar ages dealing with similar issues, theses skills and/or behaviors can be worked on in individual counseling.

If you feel your child might benefit from participating in a group please contact Mrs. Dragoslavic:

** Informed Consent: Please understand that confidentiality cannot be guaranteed in virtual meetings, whether individual or group. If this is a group zoom, Mrs. Dragoslavic will do her best to establish norms, clarify boundaries, and redirect conversation so that it is appropriate and beneficial for all participants. In the case of individual zooms, Mrs. Dragoslavic will make every effort to ensure a confidential conversation. If she is concerned you may harm yourself or others, or that someone is causing you significant harm, she will notify the appropriate persons.