Contacting Counselors

Matt Malakowsky (A-G)
763-315-7616

Debbie McCormack (H-O)
763-315-7614

Katy Burns (P-Z)
763-315-7615

Melissa Patterson
763-315-7611

Contacting Support Staff

Karen Wegerson
Counseling Secretary
763-315-7618

763-315-7614 ESP

Contacting a school counselor is often a first
step in seeking assistance.

Matt Malakowsky

Debbie McCormack

Mrs. McCormack has been at MGJH since 1999. She was previously a counselor in San Antonio, TX for 10 years. She has additional teaching experience at the Junior and Senior High levels. She completed her B.S. in education from Mankato State University and her M.A. degree in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in school counseling at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Katy Burns

COUNSELOR FOR LAST NAMES P - Z

Mrs. Patterson has been at MGJH part-time since 2005.  Before that she was a Drug & Alcohol Prevention Counselor in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in the public schools for four years.  She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Sioux Falls, M.A. in Counseling and Educational Psychology from the University of South Dakota. 

Academic Support:
Progress Reports- Peer Tutoring- Fish Class

New Students:
Counselors will assist new students to MGJH at the time of their enrollment and during their first few days of school.

Individual Counseling:
A student and his/her counselor will work together in solving immediate problems that interfere with health, personal, social, and educational development.

Testing:
Counselors help to prepare and plan for administering certain tests for students.

Counseling Groups:
Family Change Group, Grief & Loss Group, Serious Illness, Anger management, GTI Group/General Teen Issues, Concerned Persons Group

Student Leadership Groups:
*PROS (Positive Role Models Offering Support)
*Peer Mediation
*Student Council
*Peer Tutoring

* WEB (Where Everybody Belongs)- WEB's goal is to provide a structure in which students make real connections with each other. Through this program students learn that people at school care about them and their success. WEB is the junior high school transition program that will increase attendance, decrease discipline referrals and improve academic performance at your school.

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