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Guidance Counselling in Mountmellick Community School

Guidance helps you plan and explore for your future career;

 Get to know your own strengths, talents and skills

 Discover your areas of interest

 Learn how to plan for life after school

 Learn how to prepare and manage interviews and tests

 Learn about CVs, letters and application forms

 Learn how to find and keep a job

 Find and understand information about courses

Guidance helps you with learning;

 Understand how school can help you

 Learn how to study more effectively

 Improve your examination techniques

 Get information about subject choice

 Learn about exams and qualifications

 Set SMART goals

 Reflect on ways to improve your own

learning

Guidance helps you with your own life;

 Learn about your own mind

 Learn about relationships

 Understand your feelings and moods

 Learn how to make important decisions

 Learn how to cope with personal

challenges

Guidance Counselling gives you a

chance to talk to someone in private.

The Guidance Counsellor will listen,

not judge or criticise you and will help

you to understand your thoughts so

you can make your own decisions.

Confidentiality:

Guidance Counselling is fully confidential

which means what you discuss will NOT be

shared with anyone else UNLESS 1) You are

at risk of harm, 2) Someone else is at risk of

harm (where the law requires the Guidance

Counsellor to inform others).

Guidance Counsellor 2021/2022:

Joanne Teehan

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How to make an appointment and meet the Guidance Counsellor:

 Email [email protected] and simply say “I am looking

for a guidance appointment please”, along with your name and class.

 Please use your school email account

 The Guidance Counsellor will reply to your email with a time and date.

 You MUST inform your teacher that you have a guidance meeting during their class.

 It is your responsibility to catch up on any work missed.

 You do not need to tell anyone what you plan to discuss.

 If you see the Guidance Counsellor and wish to stop and ask for a guidance

appointment, that is ok too. She will still email you a suitable time and date for your

appointment- so keep an eye on your email inbox.

Typical reasons why students may wish to speak to the Guidance Counsellor:

 I need information about a career

 I don’t know how to study

 Im struggling in school

 Im falling behind in my school work

 I had a row with my friend

 Someone is bullying me

 There are some problems at home that I need help with

 I have no idea what to do with my life

 Im having difficulty eating

 Someone is picking on me

 Im worried about my health

 I got into trouble with the Gardaí

 I feel low all the time

 I need help

 I often get angry or moody

 I don’t know what to do…

How does your parent/guardian contact the Guidance Counsellor should they need to:

Email: [email protected]

Or

Phone: 057 8624220 – leave a message and the Guidance Counsellor will return their

call