Services Offered

Our counseling program at NCCA offers a wide variety of services for students. Please contact your child's counselor for questions or concerns. Below are a list of services NCCA counselors currently offer:

Individual Counseling:

Counselors are available to meet with students expressing academic challenges, difficulties dealing with relationships, personal concerns, or normal developmental tasks. Counseling assists students in identifying problems, causes, alternative and possible consequences so that appropriate action is taken. Such counseling is normally short-term and solution focused in nature. School counselors do not provide therapy. When necessary, referral sources are used to connect students/families to appropriate resources.

Group Counseling:

We will be offering various support groups, based on student need, throughout the year. Groups meet once a week for 30 minutes, for six weeks. Students participate in groups through a parent or staff referral, or they may refer themselves.

'Classroom Guidance'/Core Curriculum Lessons:

In a brick and mortar school setting, school counselors typically visit classrooms to present core curriculum lessons focused on college and career readiness, age appropriate social and emotional topics, and academic support. At NCCA, we will hold these lessons as a large group. A schedule of lessons will be posted on our School Counseling Google Calendar.

New Student Orientation:

Counselors will facilitate new student orientation via a series of small group activities and check ins. Counselors look forward to meeting new students!

Lunchtime activities:

Counselors will hold informal 'lunch bunch' once a week to provide an opportunity for students to meet other NCCA students and socialize with their grade level peers.

Academic Planning and Intervention:

NCCA counselors will check in with students regarding their academic progress and create a plan/intervention for students in need of support.

School-Wide Events:

School counselors coordinate, oversee and/or participate in various school wide events aligning with core curriculum supporting student academic, college/career and social/behavioral development. Some examples of school-wide events that occur may include: Wellness Week, Kindness Month, Career/College Fairs, and Multicultural Events.

Crisis Services:

Crisis counseling provides prevention, intervention, and follow-up. When a crisis occurs, counseling and support are provided to students and families facing emergency situations. When necessary, appropriate outside referral sources are utilized.

*Confidentiality Disclosure*

School Counselors have a responsibility to keep conversations between the student and counselor private. According to the American School Counselor Association’s Ethical Standards for School Counselors, counselors must “keep information confidential unless legal requirements demand that confidential information be revealed or a breach is required to prevent serious and foreseeable harm to the student” (American School Counselor Association [ASCA], 2010).

Examples of the need for a breach of confidentiality involve times when a student is: harming themselves, harming someone else, or someone is harming them.