counseling

School Counselor
Sister Josephine Garrett, M.A., NCC, LPC
Phone: 903-202-0760

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Introducing Squire Talks! 

Conversations with trusted folks from all over, to offer the adults in our students' lives insights, tools, and tips as they seek to raise kids to be healthy (emotionally, physically, and spiritually); and ultimately to be people who love and follow Jesus. Click below to listen and subscribe!

All episodes available On Spotify!
All episodes available On Anchor! 

Counseling for the 2023-2024 school year

  • Guidance Counseling Curriculum: The school counseling curriculum plan for the 2023-2024 school year can be found by clicking here

  • Per Class Guidance Schedule: The guidance schedule for the year is here. Visit the link to know when your student will receive guidance lessons. 

  • Our school wide virtue recognition program is "Ultimum Potentiae." This program complements our Education in Virtue curriculum that is implemented through our religious education department and daily in our classrooms. Visit our Education in Virtue page to read about this year's recognition program and the virtues our school will be focused on for the current school year. 

Counseling Services: Healing Hearts & Minds Program

Our school-based mental health and counseling program is an effort to provide support in the character formation of our students, and meet concrete social emotional needs of our students, and the families who are a part of our school community.

This effort is a comprehensive program, designed to provide support to the school community, as well as in specialized groups or individual services as needed. We seek to offer virtue-focused and practical tools, solutions, and options to students and families in the context of their own school and community.

School-wide Guidance

Routine guidance lessons are provided to our students with a focus on helping them develop a Christian worldview, with the pursuit of virtue as the path to happiness, as well as teaching coping skills and resilience practices. These community-wide services are also made available to parents through newsletters and parent workshops. 

Small Groups

Groups are also held in the program. Groups focus on topics important to students and families in the school who may be having similar experiences and would benefit from a group setting. 

Individual Services & Assessments

Lastly, individual services or assessments for some mental health diagnoses can be considered when there are circumstances that support the need for the student to have individual care. Please contact the school counselor to discuss this level of service. 

Counseling Pyramid

Puberty Education (Grades 4-5)

Handouts & Tip Sheets