Hello! My name is Ethan Snell and I am extremely excited and proud to have the privilege of being the school counselor at Meridian Elementary!  I have been the School Counselor at Meridian Elementary since the Fall of 2018.  Meridian Elementary has an amazing team of staff that is dedicated to serving and bettering their students, and I am proud to be a part of that team! 

I graduated from Boise State University with a Master’s Degree in Counseling and also hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.  Prior to working at Meridian elementary, I was employed for several years at a local agency where I worked as a certified Behavior Interventionist. Working with families and students truly is a passion of mine and I am thankful for the opportunities that I have to encourage and help build up our families at Meridian Elementary.

As the school counselor, I look forward to connecting families with needed resources, providing school wide guidance lessons, facilitating small group experiences, and meeting with individual students.  I truly enjoy helping others and I look forward to working with my students and their parents.

School counselors work with students, teachers, staff, and parents to prepare students for their future. School counselors assist students with academic issues, personal/social challenges, and help students build career and college readiness skills. 

School counseling services include: classroom guidance lessons, short term individual counseling, small group counseling, parent consultation, parent education, and community resource referrals. 

Please Note: School counselors do not provide on-going individual counseling or therapy in the school setting. Referrals to outside agencies and services are available for your child upon request for a wide range of mental health or situational concerns.

Statement of Confidentiality:  The counseling relationship between students and their school counselor requires an atmosphere of trust and confidence. Students will be informed that exceptions to confidentiality exist in which counselors must inform others of information they obtained in the counseling relationship in order to prevent serious and foreseeable harm to students themselves or others, or if the information is legally required to be shared.

Please ask your student about their tools and how they can use them in everyday situations!

If you have questions, please call me at 208-855-4338, or visit https://toolboxproject.com/
Ethan Snell, School Counselor

Documents

• Toolbox Overview Letter

• 12 Tools Poster