What can a school counselor offer?  A school counselor can:

• Listen and understand when you face a challenge
• Keep things confidential
• Work with students, parents, and teachers
• Visit the classroom for classroom guidance lessons
• Teach the Stilwell virtues
• Work with new students
• Work with students individually and/or in a small group setting
• Help students learn important social skills, conflict resolution skills, and academic success skills
• Help with Stilwell community service
• Help students with goal setting
• Work with teachers to help students have a successful school year
• Help parents with tools for successful parenting

Reasons to see the school counselor (includes but is not limited to):

• Good news
• Friendship problems
• Worried
• To share feelings
• Anger
• Loss of a loved one
• Changing family
• Sadness
• Self-Esteem
• Schoolwork challenges
• Help with a family concern
• Being teased or bullied
• Making new friends
• Tools to make good choices
• Parenting tools
• Goal setting

How to see the school counselor:

• Put a note in the mailbox located outside my office
• Send me an email or via my web page contact form
• Leave me a voicemail
• Please be sure to leave your first and last name, your child's name, a good way to contact you, and briefly describe your concern
• You will be contacted within 24 hours

Guidance lessons at Stilwell will include, but are not limited to:

• Decision making
• Friendship
• Feelings
• Self-Esteem
• Insight Inventories
• Goal setting
• Stress
• Grief and Loss
• Personal Safety
• Early career exploration
• Social Skills
• Problem solving
• Assertiveness
• Conflict Resolution
• Bullying Prevention
• Stilwell Virtues

Stilwell Virtues

• Respect
• Responsibility
• Honesty
• Compassion
• Self-Discipline
• Courage
• Perseverance