About Counseling

Counseling Department Overview
The Counseling Department provides academic, personal, and college counseling to all students during their tenure here at Ursuline High School. The department attempts to ensure that each student maximizes her potential so that she may be empowered with opportunities for the present and the future. To this end, the department must work in close association not only with students but also with parents, administrators, teachers, and other out-of-school professionals.

The department offers a wide variety of counseling and guidance services to assist students with their growth and development from being adolescents to young adults.

Primary Counseling Services
Academic Counseling is directed towards assisting students in formulating programs of studies which ensure intellectual development, personal satisfaction, and completion of college admission requirements.

Personal Counseling helps to guide the individual through an ongoing development of the total person. Counselors provide the opportunity to bring about the ethical, emotional, social, and spiritual growth of the individual student.

College Counseling occurs at every level but primarily during the junior and senior years. The junior and senior counselors in collaboration with the Director of College Counseling are responsible for the college counseling. They assist students with the College Match Project, guide students in researching colleges, provide students and parents with the necessary information about test requirements, college admissions, the application process and financial aid to help students and parents set realistic goals regarding collegiate studies.

Career Counseling which assists students in developing realistic future plans and devising the means of implementing them, begins in the ninth grade and continues during the remainder of their high school years. The Counseling Center has a computer program, Career View, available for student use. Internet searches are also available.

Counselors meet with each counselee at least three times during the year. In addition, students may request a counselor meeting at any time. Students may also request to meet with a counselor or teacher with whom they feel comfortable.

Outside referrals: If the department cannot meet a student' s needs, the department will refer the student, with parental consent, to an outside counselor or agency.