A myriad of challenges awaits school counsellors inside today’s classrooms: students struggle with their mental health; have experienced trauma, bullying, or social...

Summer 2025
In 2011, my first year as a school counsellor, a teacher phoned me in my office and asked me to come to his classroom to collect a student who needed to talk to me...
In this four-part series, I aim to explore a need-based approach for offering care to students experiencing mood or personality challenges while they are on the waiting...
It’s just after the lunch bell on a sunny day in late October, and students are queuing up outside of the counselling office hoping to ask “just a quick question” about...
The Trevor H Shirtliff Difference-Maker Scholarship is awarded to high-school students that have been identified by their high school counsellors to be activists...
