I read a lot of academic articles about school counseling in my current role as a doctoral student in counselor education. Recently I was reading an article that critiqued school counselors who unintentionally limited student options through college and career conversations just focused on jobs and "threaded with an anxiety about the future." Although I found most of the article to be missing an understanding of school counseling as a profession, I did like the author's vision for facilitating conversations about the future and postsecondary education.
Tieken (2016) suggested we "must ask not just What do you want to be? but also Who do you want
to be? Where do you want to be? Why and how do you want to be? and, importantly, How can
we support you?" (p. 220).
What powerful questions to guide all of us working with students and clients! I believe these questions are in the spirit of what we do as school counselors.
