Counseling Support

San Miguel has a full-time counselor to support social-emotional learning and to provide on-site counseling to students. With the pandemic and the challenges it has created for our students and families, we intensified counseling support with daily check-ins with students, virtual counseling sessions and additional staff support. Each morning students completed an online form indicating how they felt and if they needed support. These daily check-ins proved to be essential in monitoring the mental-emotional well-being of our students and in establishing supports when needed. Since returning to full, in-person learning last year, students have continued to complete a check-in on Monday mornings so that our counselor is aware of anyone that might need support during the week.

In addition to support for students, our counselor also offers virtual counseling sessions to parents focused on relevant topics to middle school students. These include parent academic intervention, suicide prevention, bullying prevention, social media safety, and stress management.

San Miguel’s “virtual counseling room” offers students online resources they can access independently.