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home > counselor's corner
Counselor's Corner
CONTACT INFORMATION
Camille Karcher, MA, Ed.S., National Certified Counselor
School Counselor
Phone: 703-368-4400 x213
Email: ckarcher@allsaintsva.org
Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 8am-4pm
What does a school counselor do?
- Helps each child be their best by teaching skills for social, emotional, and personal growth.
- Encourages respect for self and others, good decision making skills, and personal safety.
- Helps students who are experiencing sadness, anger or anxiety regularly.
As the school counselor of All Saints Catholic School, I am careful that all counseling and instruction that I do is informed by Catholic teaching and its true understanding of the human person.
How do children come to see the counselor?
- Parent referral: You may request that your child come to see me by calling or sending in a note. Some reasons that you might request a meeting is if you are concerned about your child because of:
- a difficult life event that the family is going through (for example, a loss, conflict, recent move),
- frequent, recurrent and disruptive emotions (such as anxiety or sadness),
- Or difficulty forming friendships.
- Teacher referral: A teacher may refer your child to see me if he or she is
- in an agitated state,
- frequently having difficulty socially or emotionally
- regularly exhibiting emotions or behaviors that are keeping him or her from being able to focus on school
- Self referral: A student may ask to come see me if he or she is regularly
- feeling very upset and cannot concentrate on school.
- dealing with a difficult social, behavioral, or emotional concern
- worried about a classmate.
- Administrative referral: The principal or assistant principal may refer you and your child to me if they feel that the student is turning up in their office due to social/emotional issues that may be better resolved in counseling than through discipline.
What is counseling like?
There are three types of counseling that I provide in the school setting: individual, group, and classroom instruction.
- Individual: students who are very upset or having a difficult time solving a social problem can visit my office and tell me what is wrong; we will then find various solutions in order to help the student can get back to doing what all children want to do: learn and play.
- Group: for students to support each other through difficult life circumstances:
- grief
- conflicts
- moving
- family stresses
- To teach social skills
- For assertiveness training
- Classroom instruction
- Virtue formation
- Social Skills
- Emotional Intelligence
My hope for this webpage is to keep you informed of classroom instruction topics that can be reinforced at home. I will also share various psychological resources to help you and your child with common social/emotional issues. This webpage will include various educational opportunities related to parenting concerns.
Organization Advice for Parents
December 3, 2008
November 2008
November 26, 2008
5th Grade: Thursday, September 26 and Tuesday, September 30, 2008
October 8, 2008
Kindergarten: Tuesday, September 30 and Thursday, October 2nd
October 8, 2008
Lunch with the Counselor Groups Beginning in October
October 8, 2008
