Student Counselling
Student Counselling
Each campus employs a qualified, full-time counsellor. Berengarra School Counsellors are part of the school’s Wellbeing Team and contribute to a school-wide approach to wellbeing for students, families and staff.
The role of the School Counsellor is to work with students and families around issues that are barriers or are impacting on students’ ability to successfully engage in school life. Most students will have access to formal counselling outside of Berengarra School to work around broader issues. If this is not in place, the School Counsellor will support students and families to locate and engage with external counselling if required.
Berengarra School’s therapeutic approach is grounded in current best practice. Our counsellors draw on a range of frameworks that are developmentally appropriate, trauma-aware, and tailored to each student’s needs.
- Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
- Trauma-aware Practice
- Positive Psychology
- Motivational Interviewing
- Brief-session Counselling
- Solution-focused and strengths-based approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Crisis intervention
- Brief session counselling
- Formal counselling
- On-the-spot advice and feedback to students, parents/carers and teachers
- Developing and reviewing focus and safety plans for students
- Support to teachers around student wellbeing issues
- Short-term work with parents/carers around issues relating to school attendance/engagement
- Referral to and coordination with external services
- Coordination and/or participation in internal and external meetings
- Involvement or delivery of classes, programs or projects to students around student wellbeing
Related Supports and Services
Learn about our whole-school approach to wellbeing and therapeutic support – Student Wellbeing
See how we create a safe, inclusive learning environment for every student – Diversity and Inclusion
Understand who we support and how to begin the enrolment process – Enrolment Criteria
Explore our personalised, skills-based learning model – Box Hill Campus
If you think your child could benefit from additional support, please don’t hesitate to contact us to speak with our Wellbeing Team and start a conversation. You can call the school directly, just click the Contact Us link below to get in touch. We’re here to listen, provide guidance, and work alongside you to ensure your child feels safe, supported and connected at school.
