School Counseling

The mission of the Bishop Brady School Counseling Office is to build positive relationships to ensure the academic, career, and social/emotional growth of all students.

By utilizing a holistic counseling approach, the School Counseling Office provides the tools to empower students to achieve their individual and post-secondary goals.


The SCO works collaboratively with Bishop Brady staff to ensure the needs of all students are met. Our counselors develop and foster strong relationships with students and parents, maintaining trust and true compassion. Our academic coach offers the services and support students may need to meet their academic goals. Our registrar works to create overall schedules, plus provide grades & transcripts. Everyone strives to connect and guide students towards their goals: academically, socially, and emotionally.

Counseling Techniques and Interventions

The School Counseling Office addresses student goals through the use of individual, group, and systems-wide counseling techniques and interventions. We assist students throughout the college process, helping them to identify their skills and interests, plus how to utilize this knowledge to positively influence their future. We take pride in the multiple individual counseling sessions we have with our students - focusing on their progress toward their academic goals and post-secondary plans, while also providing mental health check-ins, as we recognize our students’ social/emotional well-being greatly affects their success.

Bishop Brady School Counseling Team

School Counseling Services

All Years

  • Hold individual conferences focusing on grade-level appropriate academic and social/emotional issues (i.e., adjustment to high school, post-secondary college/career exploration, college application process, graduation transition, etc.)
  • Develop a 4-year BBHS course of study, monitor academic progress and goals, and assist with course registration
  • Administer PSAT/SAT and review standardized test results
  • Offer classroom presentations on “Freshman-, Sophomore-, Junior-, and Senior-Year” agendas
  • Provide academic support throughout the year as needed and make referrals for peer/professional tutoring, if necessary

Freshman Year

  • Provide beginning-of-the-year academic support orientation sessions
  • Offer classroom presentations focusing on college & career exploration and options

Sophomore Year

  • Continue career exploration and begin identifying potential colleges/universities or other post-secondary plans
  • Introduce Naviance (college & career readiness software)

Junior Year

  • Deepen investigation & hold further conversations about post-secondary college or career plans
  • Develop a prospective list of colleges
  • Host college process information & Naviance workshops for students and parents

Senior Year

  • Hold individual conferences focusing on college applications & the college process or other post-secondary plans
  • Review college essays and provide letters of recommendation & transcripts for college applications and scholarships
  • Maintain list of scholarships on Naviance
  • Host college application & financial aid sessions for students and parents

Academic Support Services

Students at Bishop Brady are immersed in a community that cultivates individual growth in learning, faith, and service. This growth begins in an environment that nurtures talents and supports struggle. Growth is also shown in each Brady student's pursuit of excellence in the classroom, on the athletic field, and in his or her social life.

As a means of supporting each student's growth, we offer a variety of support options. It is an important part of our mission that each young man and woman seeking an education at Bishop Brady have the services and support they need to achieve their potential. Bishop Brady offers multiple levels of academic assistance to help both the student who is doing well who wants to push themselves to the next level, as well as the student who is struggling achieve their full potential.


Mrs. Kathleen Smith, the Academic Coach: [email protected] / 603.224.7418 x284

Academic Coach

Working through our School Counseling office, the Academic Coach works in partnership with students, teachers, administration, and parents. Students meet individually to focus on the process of learning and what is required to achieve academic success. Beginning by developing a current profile of academic performance, students and coach work together to develop and implement specific strategies that along with a supportive relationship, and heightened personal focus and accountability, serve to assist the student’s growth and goal attainment.


Coaching sessions focus on areas such as; time and energy management, study skills and test preparation, planning and prioritizing work, managing homework assignments, reading for comprehension, organizational skills, task initiation and completion, improving attention and focus, and the goal setting process. The coaching goal is to assist the student in developing their own personal strategies and skill set, that can be applied to current and future academic settings. Coaching sessions are available to all students, from those who may be struggling in certain areas to those who are just interested in “upping their game”.


Along with individualized coaching, several orientation classes are held for the freshmen class at the start of the school year. 


College Destinations

Our students who are currently in college received acceptances from more than 250 different colleges and universities. Listed in this section are some of those schools. In addition, we are very honored and humbled to note that each year several graduating seniors choose to enlist in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

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  • BBHS College Destinations A-O 2015-2018

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Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy As To Students

Bishop Brady High School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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