Counseling Services
Worcester Academy provides a comfortable environment with approachable counselors and advisors who listen and offer support to students anytime during their career at Worcester Academy.
But we don’t stop there. We work hard to make connections with our students and aim to empower them toward healthy and safe decisions throughout their middle and upper school years. Whether it’s individual counseling services, teaching our middle school Health and Wellness classes, or supporting our PILLARS Peer Education Program, we're committed to helping WA students develop their full potential in all areas of intellectual, social and emotional functioning.
Our counselors are available to students and parents for support and treatment, including referrals to outside providers. Although the Academy provides this service, we stress that our counseling is short-term and not intended to remedy learning disabilities, serious psychological disorders, or other problems requiring extensive or long-term attention. If such conditions are determined to exist, our counselors refer families to the appropriate service providers. We also retain a consulting psychologist and a consulting psychiatric nurse practitioner. Both work closely with our school counselors and Health Office.
But we don’t stop there. We work hard to make connections with our students and aim to empower them toward healthy and safe decisions throughout their middle and upper school years. Whether it’s individual counseling services, teaching our middle school Health and Wellness classes, or supporting our PILLARS Peer Education Program, we're committed to helping WA students develop their full potential in all areas of intellectual, social and emotional functioning.
Our counselors are available to students and parents for support and treatment, including referrals to outside providers. Although the Academy provides this service, we stress that our counseling is short-term and not intended to remedy learning disabilities, serious psychological disorders, or other problems requiring extensive or long-term attention. If such conditions are determined to exist, our counselors refer families to the appropriate service providers. We also retain a consulting psychologist and a consulting psychiatric nurse practitioner. Both work closely with our school counselors and Health Office.
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Confidentiality Statement
Seeing a counselor on campus is free, confidential, and does not become part of the student’s academic record. Unless we have very serious concerns about a student’s safety, anything students or parents communicate with us remains confidential. We will communicate with others if students and parents give us permission to do so. All psychological information shared between students, parents, and the Academy’s school counselors is private and is treated confidentially within the limits of the law.
If a student seeks out the counseling office, we are likely to be in communication with a parent about this. However, since it can take time to build a trusting relationship, we may not contact parents after one visit. If students return for a second or third visit to the Counseling Office, we are likely to contact parents. We will inform parents about the overall emotional health of the student or goals or progress of counseling, but we will not disclose all of the details of the counseling session. This is a clear message to a student that he/she can have a private space to talk, but that the counseling office is working with parents to support his/her emotional health.
Please feel free to contact us if you have further questions about confidentiality.
