Counseling Services
Counseling at Army and Navy Academy takes a unified approach to maximize the impact on the academic, social, and emotional growth and development of our students. We offer practical services to navigate academics and college planning, as well as to address social and emotional topics. We are here to help students transform their future outlook as they excel in academics, hone their mental fitness, and enhance their social lives in middle school and high school.
COUNSELING SERVICES
Counseling at Army and Navy Academy takes a unified approach to maximize the impact on the academic, social, and emotional growth and development of our students. We offer practical services to navigate academics and college planning, as well as to address social and emotional topics. We are here to help students transform their future outlook as they excel in academics, hone their mental fitness, and enhance their social lives in middle school and high school.
STUDENT COUNSELING
The Counseling Department is here as a resource for students as they experience a time of growth, accomplishment, and change. Our counselors work to help Army and Navy Academy both boarding and day school students develop the competencies necessary to make self-directed, realistic, and responsible decisions. Counselors play a critical role in helping provide support to our male students through classroom guidance lessons, group activities, one-on-one counseling sessions, and school-wide counseling initiatives.
Here are some of the services offered that are geared for boys in middle and high school: academic scheduling, college planning services, college campus tours, classroom guidance lessons, and school psychologist appointments.
PEER COUNSELING
Students, especially in a boarding school, often seek out their friends or peers when they are experiencing a problem. For this reason, we provide a Peer Counseling Program, so students (cadets) can reach out anytime and know that they will be understood and heard.
To prepare students for this important role, Peer Counselors attend intense training, led by the Counseling Department. During training, they work on listening and conflict resolution skills. Peer Counselors, easily identified on campus by their blue and orange chord, are also trained by staff on how to identify if a personal situation should be referred to an adult counselor. Professionally trained counselors offer individualized and group sessions to support and address any issues that arise. Peer Counseling and Peer Tutoring are offered under clubs so students have time to meet and get training and support.
COLLEGE COUNSELING
The Academy has a proud tradition of sending graduates off to top schools. Army and Navy Academy alumni are currently attending Ivy League universities, notable colleges including Stanford, University of Chicago, University of California Berkeley, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of California San Diego (UCSD), as well as service academies including the United States Naval Academy and West Point.
This road to success is laid at the Academy, where every student undergoes college and career planning with a college counselor in the years leading up to graduation. Counselors help students discover colleges that will fit their unique profiles and get the best possible start on a leading a fulfilling life after high school.