What Does a College Counselor Do?

College counseling can become a really tedious process that is often treated as a ‘one-size-fits-all’ blueprint model. At Village Coaches, we prefer to place emphasis on helping teenagers build important skills that they will use for life and figure out who they are while doing college counseling. In this episode of Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You, we are breaking down what college counselors do, why our model is different from the norm, how meeting with students every week assists the process, and when the best time is to start college coaching. At Village, we don’t offer a generic model for every single student and instead, we help our kids thrive and learn about themselves while building skills they will use in college and beyond. For us, it’s about the long game and college counseling is just one of the many times your kids will encounter uncertainty and challenges. We even discuss why our students come to discuss college issues with us once they have already transitioned from high school. Lastly, we remind you that teenagers are smarter than we think and know themselves more than we give them credit for. You don’t want to miss this one so tune in now!

 

Key Points From This Episode:

 

• [0:01:41] Why we want to discuss what college counseling looks like. 
• [0:02:51] How we define college counseling and the role of a college counselor.
• [0:08:24] The Village college counselor model and why that feels different from others.
• [0:13:21] Why we love meeting with students every week. 
• [0:18:02] How our students manage transitioning into college and why they talk to us about it.
• [0:21:32] What Village Coaches offers that other college counselors don’t.
• [0:25:11] The best time to start college counseling.
• [0:30:28] The beauty of getting to do college coaching the way that we want to.
• [0:32:26] Why we approach kids with curiosity and trust that they know themselves. 

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