Counseling

Welcome

The Rio Mesa High School Counselors are dedicated to helping you throughout your high school career and advocating for you by having high expectations, challenging you through rigorous curriculum to become college and career ready. We offer academic, personal, social, and college to career counseling. While empowering you to develop 21st century skills, we strive to ensure that our students will become responsible and productive citizens in a global society. As servants to our students, we are student advocates and provide referrals to community agencies.

For parents, we provide educational and long-range planning, ensure a positive learning environment, and will connect you to Parent VUE, our online access to student attendance and academic progress. In addition, we provide information and events for community agencies, ROP, and assist foreign exchange students. Finally, we work in close partnership with the College and Career Center for information to colleges, trade schools, financial aid, scholarships, and the military and the Student Wellness Center to provide social emotional services.

Counselors are assigned by student last name. Find your last name to identify your counselor from the list below.
Please note:

• All English Learners (EL), foster youth, exchange students and migrant youth are assigned to Mr. Zuniga, regardless of last name.
• All IB DP diploma candidates are assigned to Mrs. Kinney, regardless of last name. 
• All IB CP certificate candidates are assigned to Mrs. Gomez, regardless of last name. 
• All AVID students are assigned to Mrs. McDevitt, regardless of last name. 
• Mr. Castillo and Ms. Tomasetti, the Student Wellness Specialists, are available through student self-referral and/or administrator, teacher, or counselor referral.

Your Counselors

Support Groups

Rio Mesa offers the following Support Groups with professional therapists during the school day:

• Grief
• Teen Issues
• Drug/ alcohol and tobacco

For more information about these groups, please contact your school counselor.