Counseling Services
What We Do
We meet with you to hear your concerns, address your individual needs, and coordinate relevant resources to support and care for you well. SCS partners with you to establish a care plan of support and offer workshops and seminars to faculty, staff and students to provide tips on caring well for our community, you and your friends. Our services include:
- Guidance Lessons
- Individual & Groups Counseling
- Crisis Management
- Individual Planning
- Goal Setting
- Referral to Outside Agencies
- Collaborations with Teachers and Student
- Behavioral Support
- Social Emotional Learning support
- Personal Health & Safety support
- Post Secondary Planning & Career Readiness
Comprehensive Guidance Plan
Guidance Curriculum
The guidance curriculum is designed to systematically provide lessons to students that facilitate growth, development, and transferable skills in the areas of educational, career, personal, and social development. Guidance lesson topics will include Healthy Coping Skills and Mental Health, Healthy Relationships, Bullying, Cyber-Bullying, and Social Media Safety, and Healthy Life Choices.
Responsive Services
The purpose of responsive services is to intervene on behalf of students whose immediate personal concerns or circumstances put their continued educational, career, personal, and social development at risk. These services include responding to crisis, individual counseling, group counseling, and parent conferences.
Individual Planning
The purpose of individual planning is to guide all students as they plan, monitor, and manage their individual educational, career, personal, and social development.
The purpose of system support is to identify and coordinate resources and activities on campus and in the community that indirectly benefit students.
Counselors in the Classroom
The NEISD Counselors teach guidance lessons in the classroom to support and enhance the learning process. Some of the topics include:
Coping Skill
Help equip students with the skills they need to address anxiety, frustration, anger, sadness, and a variety of other stressful emotions in healthy ways.
Healthy Relationships
Help students identify and recognize healthy and unhealthy relationships, and teach them the skills to make positive choices.
Bullying/Cyberbullying
Help students learn all aspects of bullying/cyberbullying, and focus on prevention and character education.
Self-Awareness
Teach students how to be aware of their own thoughts and feelings, and how to self-regulate their emotions and responses.
Drug Prevention and Awareness
Equip students with the skills to make healthy choices necessary for a full and productive life
College and Career Readiness
Provide multiple opportunities for students to explore a variety of careers and help them align their educational choices with their future career goals