School Counselor
Meet Ms. Weiss
College: The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (B.S.), Adams State University (M.A.)
Loves: The mountains, fall weather, coffee, and baking
Excited to: Support your student's academic and social/emotional growth!
Contact Ms. Weiss
Phone: (720) 897-9314
Email: jweiss@gvaschools.org
If you’d like to help support the counseling program, here are a few ways you can do so:
- Ask your student(s) about their counseling lessons! Find out what they’re learning so you can support these skills at home.
- E-mail me and volunteer to help prepare counseling materials (copying, cutting, laminating, organizing)
- Have another idea? Please let me know! A parent-school partnership is how we best support all of our students!
What Does A School Counselor Do?
The school counselor is here to support every single student in the building! The counselor does the following:
- Teaches classroom lessons to all students about a variety of social-emotional topics
- Runs group counseling activities to support student growth
- Performs individual student planning to help students with goal setting, understanding their own interests and skills, and achieving their potential
- Provides brief, solution-focused individual counseling to support academic, social-emotional success
- Provides support during crises
- Collaborates with school staff, families, and community agencies to support students
- Provides referrals for appropriate community resources
- The school counselor does not:
- Take disciplinary action with students
- Only provide career guidance
- Tell parents or teachers what to do
- Provide long-term therapy
Group Counseling
With a caregiver’s consent, the following topics may be covered when there is an identified need with multiple students:
- New student support
- Friendship skills
- Social skills
- Managing anger
- Managing worry
- Managing stress
- Changing families
- Self-control
- Mindfulness
- Building self-esteem
- Grief recovery
- Study skills
- Conflict resolution
- Responsibility skills
- Leadership skills
- Deployment support
Topics Covered in Classroom Counseling Lessons
- Growth mindset
- Study skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Self-advocacy (asking for help)
- Responsibility
- Friendship
- Respecting differences
- Social skills
- Respect
- Empathy
- Emotions
- Mindfulness
- Self-regulation
- Coping skills
- Managing frustration/anger
- Stress management
- Conflict resolution
- Self-esteem & confidence
- Kindness
- Resiliency
- Communication
- Self-care
- And so much more!