Counseling & Afterlife Support
We’re Here So You Don’t Have to Untangle This Alone
Adjusting to Downtown Void High — and to being dead, displaced, or out of time — can feel confusing, heavy, or unreal. Our Counseling & Afterlife Support team exists so you don’t have to try to “just deal with it” by yourself.
You can come to counseling if you:
- Remember your death too clearly.
- Don’t remember it at all and that scares you.
- Are angry, numb, guilty, homesick, or “fine” in a way that feels fake.
- Are having a hard time being around certain people, places, or dates.
- Just want to talk to someone who won’t be weird about it.
No problem is “too small” for counseling. If it’s sitting in your chest, it’s big enough to bring here.
Services We Provide
- Individual Counseling: One-on-one sessions with a counselor to talk, cry, vent, or sit quietly.
- Grief & Loss Support: For students mourning their own lives or the people they left behind.
- Trauma & Death Processing: Gentle help untangling difficult memories without forcing details.
- Cross-Era Identity Support: For students feeling out of place in modern hallways or mixed-era classes.
- Afterlife Adjustment Groups: Small circles for kids with similar experiences (accidents, illness, etc.).
- Crisis Support: Emergency help when emotions, memories, or haunt patterns feel overwhelming.
You can request a specific counselor, or we can match you based on your file, era, and comfort level.
Meet the Counseling Team (Selected)
Specializes in grief, quiet kids, and those who blame themselves for everything. Office: Counseling Wing 1A • Status: Posthumous
Focus on cross-era identity, anger, and kids who “don’t want to talk about it” but still show up. Office: Counseling Wing 2C
Academic counseling for living or mixed-status students, schedule planning, and staying tethered to the living world. Office: Counseling Wing 3B
• Walk in before/after school or during a free period.
• Ask a teacher to write you a pass to Counseling.
• Leave a note in the “I Don’t Know What I Need” box outside 1A.
What to Expect in Your First Visit
- Check in at the Counseling front desk or quietly knock on an open door.
- A counselor will invite you in and ask basic questions (name, year of death or arrival, pronouns).
- You decide what to share. “I don’t know where to start” is an acceptable answer.
- You and the counselor can make a plan: more sessions, support group, schedule tweaks, or just a place to come back to.
You will not be punished for being upset, emotional, numb, or detached. Counseling is not detention. It’s a place where your feelings get to exist.
Emergency & Crisis Support
If you feel like you are:
- Reliving your death scene repeatedly.
- Being pulled toward unsafe locations (rooftop edges, roads, rivers, etc.).
- Thinking about harming yourself or someone else (even as a ghost).
- Fading in ways that feel frightening or out of control.
Please notify a staff member immediately or go directly to Counseling Wing 1A.
You are not a burden. You are not “too much.” You are a student, and we are responsible for keeping you as safe as this place allows.