Direct student services include:

• Appraisal and Advisement – assessing student abilities, interests and achievement to help them make decisions about their future.
• Counseling – providing professional assistance and support to a student or small group of students during times of transition, heightened stress, critical change or other situations impeding student success. School counselors do not provide therapy or long-term counseling in schools. However, school counselors are prepared to recognize and respond to student mental health needs and assist students and families seeking resources.
• Instruction – teaching the school counseling curriculum to students focused through the lens of selected student standards from the ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success.

Indirect student services include:

• Consultation – sharing of strategies that support student achievement with parents, teachers, other educators and community organizations.
• Collaboration – work with other educators, parents and the community to support student achievement and social-emotional development.
• Referrals – support for students and families to school or community resources for additional assistance and information.