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The Program for Counseling in Schools is based in the Bay Area in Northern California. The Program is ideal for prospective therapists who need to fulfill practicum hours to graduate from their programs or have graduated and are fulfilling post-graduate hours to obtain licensure. 

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A Day in the Life of a School Counselor

8:30 am: Arrive

  • Arrive at your school site on time. Check-in with the principal/secretary so that they know you are on campus.

  • Set aside some time to have a brief meeting with your principal at least once a week so they can fill you in on anything that happened on days you weren’t at the school site/provide you with information about students (these check-ins go toward your 3000 hours)

  • Check your mailbox in the faculty room for referrals or returned permission forms from teachers

  • Get settled in your space and make a goal for the day of a few students that you need to see and who is a priority for the day. 

Work of the Intern or Trainee

Primary Work: Children and Their Parents: 

The primary work of the intern is individual counseling with children at school. Play therapy is the most common and appropriate mode of work with younger children. Talk therapy or a more interactive therapy is used with older children and this still may contain elements of play. 

Initiating contact with the parents is one of the first and most important steps. Typically, you inform a young client that you will be contacting his or her parent. It is important to establish contact as soon as possible. You are a professional and you will be working with this child psychologically. Therefore, it is important to enlist the cooperation of the parent or parents. This provides a fuller therapeutic process for the child, by allowing you to counsel the parents regarding family patterns and other factors contributing to a child’s distress. 

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