School Counseling in Parochial Schools: An Auto-Ethnography

Abstract Minimal research has been conducted in parochial schools that focuses school counseling practices and guidance services. An autoethnographic approach was utilized to search for themes within a parochial school counselors’ lived experiences within a parochial setting. Four themes and three sub themes emerged from the data. The identified themes and sub themes indicate a clear emergence of a parochial school counselor’s faith influencing their role and work, school climate systems and structures mitigated a school counselor’s ability to achieve their conceived role, and the limitations of the ASCA National Model’s ability to be infused into a parochial setting.