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Hillsborough school counselor: relationships with students, teachers and families give counselors purpose and help students use coping strategies
Summary
An unnamed Hillsborough County school counselor told meeting participants that strong relationships with students, teachers and families make the counseling role meaningful and help students apply strategies that improve their well-being.
School counselor (name not provided) told meeting attendees that the relationships counselors build with students, teachers and families give the role a sense of purpose and help students put coping strategies into practice.
"What makes my role more than just a job is I truly feel that we have purpose on our campus. I feel that the relationships that counselors build with our students and with our teachers and with the families at our school, it just brings such a feeling of accomplishment and such a feeling of worth as a person," the school counselor said. The speaker added that one of the most rewarding experiences is "being able to watch them grow and being able to watch them turn into amazing adults that they become even after they leave me." The counselor recounted an example: a student returned the day after a session to say, "thank you so much. I really used the strategies that you taught me, and it made me feel so much better."
The counselor also praised Hillsborough County for valuing the role of school counselors on campus, saying, "What I think sets Hillsborough County apart from other institutions is the value that they place on the school counselor's role on a school site, whether it's our school counseling supervisors, whether it's the administrators on our site, whether it's the teachers that I work with daily, truly appreciate and value with the day to day that the school counselor plays in a student's education."
Remarks were presented as observations and a personal account of counseling work; no formal actions, motions or votes were recorded in the provided excerpts.
