School Counselor Interview Paper

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I interviewed a woman named Rachel Langan who is the school counselor for the Starpoint School on TCU's campus. She was very insightful to all of my questions even though she has only been working for a few years. Her job title is a school counselor. She received a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from Clemson University and a Masters in Professional and School Counseling from TCU and is also a certified teacher. She completed her education without taking any time off and finished in 5 years. This is her third school year with Starpoint as their only counselor. She heard about Starpoint's job opening through an online job posting and she was recommended for the position by TCU faculty. Since she is the only counselor at a fairly …show more content…

Langan said that being the counselor for Starpoint is her ideal job for her as a young counselor. If she had another completely different job she also was interested in landscape architecture, gardening, and drawing and designing. She said that if she were not in the counseling field she would love to have a career in decorating. On a typical day at Starpoint, she meets with students, as needed, to help with issues like friendship struggles, anxiety, self-esteem and family problems. She also plans lessons for the teachers to teach life skills such as cooperation, friendship and responsibility. She gives the teachers pre-made lesson plans that include 15 lessons focused on hands-on activities. She started the MindUp curriculum at her school, which is shown to increase cooperation, compassion, enthusiasm for learning and empathy. Though this program does not specifically deal with counseling it focuses on hand on learning through neuroscience material, mindful awareness of their peers, social-emotional learning and positive psychology. She trains the teachers in this type of teaching style that is shown to benefit how children learn as well as positive social interactions. She has seen great improvement in the installation of this program at

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