Guidance Counsellors

The role of Guidance Counsellors is to provide counselling, student support, classroom support and assessment services to assist students in our Catholic schools. 

Students may be referred for brief intervention either individually or via small groups, to assist with a range of challenges such as social skills, emotional regulation strategies and grief and loss. 

Students may also be referred for psycho-educational assessment. Access to assessment and classroom support requires teacher and classroom planning, intervention and monitoring before proceeding.  

Students in our primary school can be referred by their classroom teacher or member of the Leadership Team via the completion of the SWB & PS referral form. 

Students in the secondary school can self-refer, or be referred via their pastoral leader, member of their Leadership Team or parents or via the on-line referral link. Support provided by Guidance Counsellors is not a replacement for psychological therapies and students requiring intensive support should be referred to a private psychologist or alternatively to one of the publicly available services. 

Conversations with Guidance Counsellors are typically confidential, however there are circumstances in which matters cannot be kept confidential (e.g. student safety/self-harm/child abuse or neglect) and in those cases information may need to be provided to a Parent/School Principal/Child Safety.  Guidance Counsellors will discuss with parents and students the limits to confidentiality during the consent process prior to commencing counselling.

Please see here for access to the Guidance Counsellors in Primary Schools brochure and the Guidance Counsellor in Secondary Schools brochure.

COUNSELLOR SUPPORT

Our Guidance Counsellors Ms Stacey Doyle, Ms Carmen Toohey and Ms Christine Lewis are dedicated to providing counselling, student support, classroom support and assessment services to the St Anthony's community.

Following services are available:

  • support to school staff to assist with planning and programming strategies for students who require signficant adjustment to their learning;
  • support in management of students with disabilities
  • developing behaviour support strategies for students in collaboration with staff and parents;
  • facilitating counselling to students with personal, social and emotional needs;
  • liaising with health professionals to meet student needs (Eg. referral to external agencies);
  • facilitating and administering appropriate assessments;
  • providing professional development to staff regarding student health and well-being and student support;
  • providing parent information regarding student educational needs and well-being;
  • assistance with school planning in relation to important student transitions, pastoral issues and development over their schooling.

Ms Tegan Towler
Padua

Monday - Friday

Prep - Year 6 

Ms Carmen Toohey
Assisi

Monday - Friday

Years 7 -9

Ms Stacey Doyle
Assisi

Monday - Wednesday

Years 9 - 12

Ms Amelia Edwards
Assisi

Thursday

Years 9 - 12

Padua Campus Assisi Campus
AddressA

Veales Road, Deeragun
QLD 4818

Joanne Street, Deeragun
QLD 4818

PostalP

PO Box 143
Deeragun, Qld 4818

PO Box 143
Deeragun, Qld 4818

PhoneT

07 4751 7200

07 4751 7300

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land of the Wulgurukaba and Bindal people and pay our respects to the elders past, present and future.

4751 7280
Absentee Line

This number can be called at any time to record a student absence

03 Dec

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