Welcome to Student Services
Julie Lohnes-Cashin - julohnes@gnspes.ca (Full-time)
To make an appointment, please email or drop by the Counselling Office for assistance.
Julie Lohnes-Cashin - julohnes@gnspes.ca (Full-time)
To make an appointment, please email or drop by the Counselling Office for assistance.
Did you know?
Student Services is an in school team of agencies and professionals that support all students.
FHCS Student Services include:
School Counsellor, Julie Lohnes-Cashin (full-time)
Mental Health & Addictions Services, Chris Brown (Clinical Therapist), Hailey Weldon (Adolescent Outreach Worker)
SSRCE SchoolsPlus, Keri Duffney (Outreach Worker) & Colleen Myra (SchoolsPlus Facilitator and Parent Navigator)
SSRCE Student Support Worker, Sheila Porter
Child and Youth Care Practitioners (CYCP), Nicole Skinner & Jaqueline McCarron
Nova Scotia Works School Liaison, Lorenda Barkhouse
Students seek counselling and services support for all types of reasons.... These are unique to each person.
So... What is the role of a School Counsellor?
A School Counsellor is an educator who is trained and qualified to address the personal, educational, career and social needs of students.
A School Counsellor provides professional counselling services along with preventative and proactive school programming, career and life planning and actively engages in professional development based on current student needs.
What about Confidentiality & Consent?
School Counsellors often provide in school / in class / individual academic support. Typically this kind of work is not confidential.
Individual or small group meetings with students are often used for discussing information of a confidential nature.
School Counsellors explain the limits of confidentiality when they meet with students. If a student reveals that they are being harmed, plan to harm themselves or another person, then legally this information must be shared with the appropriate parties. There may also be times when a School Counsellor receives a court-issued request to provide information.
Students over the age of 13 can legally consent to counselling services without parent consent or knowledge.
Sometimes it is in the best interest of the student for information to be shared with parents or teachers, but there is no legal requirement. Student permission is required before any information is shared.