Guidance and Counselling

A comprehensive Career Guidance and Counselling service is available to all students at Good Counsel College. Educational/Vocational counselling assists the students to grow in self-knowledge and self-esteem by providing information to enable them to make constructive life choices and future plans.

Armed with the information pupils are then free and responsible for their own choices and actions. The Guidance Counsellor helps the pupils to recognise the range of alternatives available after completing the Leaving Certificate and assists them to develop the skills to consciously shape their own career path.

The aims of the Guidance programme are as follows:

• Overcome any information deficit on careers/education.
• Foster a sense of personal responsibility for identifying future educational/vocational goals.
• Provide experiences that promote career development and prepare students for the transition to work/higher education.
• Focus on an individual's strength and potentials so as to create a strategy for Promoting discussion of student's educational/careers development in order to discourage excuses for irresponsible action.
• Introduce and foster a process of evaluating realistically, attainable career/higher education goals.
• Encourage the pupils to define expectations.

Guidance and Counselling is available at the Fr. Jackie Power Pastoral Care Centre. The Guidance Counsellors are Ms. Jane Byrne, and Ms. Noelle Carroll. The school Chaplain Fr. Michael Collander is also available to meet with students or parents in the Pastoral Care Centre.