Season 2, Episode #6 (Revisited) – Support in Schools

I think that a common misconception I hear when talking with people about school counselors is they understand a portion of the scope of your profession, but they don't understand the far reach that counseling has in supporting whole family care.

And so I think that if your child is being bullied at school or if you're having testing done or an issue with planning for graduation and what needs to be done to be able to meet those credits, obviously many parents know that the person to contact is the school counselor.

But actually, in terms of illness and family stress and those sort of needs, school counseling plays a very vital part as well.

Yeah, counseling in the school system, and again, working in all three levels across my career, it's very different.

I mean, there are some things that are very much the same, but it's different depending on their age.

But Counselors in a school system are there for a lot of reasons.

One, we track all children in all meetings.

We all are aware of our strugglers academically and our strugglers within their family, strugglers socially, the kids that are struggling to make friends.

Personally, just dealing with issues like ADD, ADHD, dyslexia.

I mean, all of the different issues that make it really difficult for a kid to have a great day.

We're always on top of any child who is struggling.

And that is true for all three levels.

In elementary, I loved counseling elementary.