Ricci Gold - School Counselor
About me
Hi!
I'm Miss Gold, and I'm the newest addition to the School Counseling Department here at NHHS. I have students 9-12 last names A-CON. As a school counselor, I focus on helping students with academic and social/emotional concerns and guiding them through the post-secondary process. I love building relationships with students and supporting them through collaboration and consultation with the students themselves, families, staff, and the community.
Outside of school, I enjoy spending time with my family, friends, and kitty, Luca. I also love listening to classic rock, singing, reading, and theatre.
What do school counselors do?
- Work directly with students and work on students’ behalf through collaboration with parents, other school professionals, and community members.
- Address students’ academic and emotional needs and design unique approaches to aid students developing their lives and careers beyond school.
- Provide academic, personal, social, career and college counseling.
- Provide counseling interventions designed to support student growth and the achievement of goals.
- Provide counseling dealing with self-image and self-esteem, peer relationships, social skills, coping strategies, and conflict resolution.
- Provide crisis intervention services.
- Assist students and their parents in planning for a transition to the next grade or school and in course selection at the higher grades.
- Provide consultation and communication with parents/guardians to support students’ academic and social success.
- Assist parents/guardians in helping families support students’ growth.
- Provide advocacy for all students.
- Provide consultation to school staff.
Counselors accomplish their work with students through:
- Direct services to students individually, in groups, and in the classroom setting.
- Individual student planning and goal-setting through Naviance.
- Group skill building activities.
- Class instruction based on the developmental school counseling curriculum.
- Preventative and responsive interventions.
- Consultation with parents, school, and community.