Services We Provide

Individual counseling and group counseling are both services that the Westlake Charter School Counseling Department provides in order to directly support students. Although our role is not to offer long-term counseling services, we do work with students who may benefit from receiving short term counseling services as a result of how their particular issue is impacting their academic and social emotional growth.  Below is a short list of some of the issues that we work with students on:

• Emotional Regulation

• Anxiety

• Peer Relationships  

• Anger Management  

• Organization & Study Skills  

• Body Image  

• Family Concerns  

• Loss of a Family Member  

• Dealing with change and challenges of growing up    

We may refer students and their families to seek additional therapeutic services through our community partners.

As a way of creating a positive school culture where students embrace diversity, learn to be kind and gracious to their peers, and where bullying behavior is not tolerated, the Westlake Charter School Counseling Department has implemented several interventions to foster these skills in experiential and theoretical ways.

• Classroom Lessons – Counselors collaborate with classroom teachers to present developmentally appropriate lessons that provide students with examples of positive behavior and strategies for resolving conflicts and coping with stress in a healthy, productive way.