Counseling Services

• Setting goals
• Working well with others
• Feeling good about yourself
• Adjusting to a new school
• Learning how to make decisions
• Managing your feelings (stress, worry, anger, etc.)
• Dealing with peer pressure and bullying

• Exploring ways to help your child succeed
• Improving parent-child communications
• Understanding the developmental changes of childhood
• Supply reference materials
• Information to help understand your child's special needs

• Classroom Presentations
• Group Counseling
• Brief Solution- Focused Counseling
• Parent Consultations
• Community Resource Referrals

Please Note: School counselors do not provide "therapy" or "traditional counseling"

Our counselor would be happy to provide a list of outside counseling services that are available for children experiencing grief, divorce, family separation, deployment or mental health concerns.

• Facilitate classroom "Life Skills" lessons aligned with state standards in each classroom
• Organize school-wide service projects and special events as applications of our character education program
• Consult with parents, teachers, and administrators
• Provide materials to teachers and parents on topics related to the guidance and counseling standards when needed
• Connect families with school and community resources
• Talk with students who have a problem they'd like help solving or have something on their mind they'd like to talk about
• Visit with students who could use care and support from an extra adult
• Counsel students in small groups built around shared needs like divorce/changing families, grief, anger management, etc.
• Counsel students individually
• Teach social skills and coping skills

• Emotional awareness and coping skills
• Conflict resolution
• Friendship/social skills
• Self-esteem
• Goal setting
• Decision-making
• Character education (respect, responsibility, kindness, trustworthiness, etc.)
• Personal safety
• Behavior, choices and consequences, & responsibility 
• Career awareness and preparedness
• Academic skills and achievement
• Appreciating individual differences

• Draw pictures, play games, play with puppets or toys, work on projects
• Talk about little things, big things, or anything in between
• Build a positive relationship and connection at school
• Develop problem-solving abilities
• Teach coping strategies, social skills, study skills, etc.
• Build self-esteem and confidence
• Help children cope with difficult and/or unchangeable life events
• Help children recognize and make use of their potential
• Give children a neutral, open place to share their concerns and feelings
• Give children the opportunity to connect with other students having similar experiences