Educator, school counselor and student support leader Jasmine Pearson knows that caring about students isn't the same as having a system that catches them.
She helps schools, districts and organizations respond to student mental health, crisis and change with clear protocols, confident staff and trauma-informed practice that holds up under pressure.
Real care. Real systems. Real students.
Most schools aren't short on caring adults. They're short on shared language, clear protocols and the confidence to act when a student is in crisis.
When the plan lives in one person's head, staff hesitate, documentation slips and students fall through the gaps between counseling, administration and families. Compliance becomes a worry instead of a safeguard.
Jasmine brings more than a decade of front-line counseling and leadership to the problem. She gives your team practical frameworks for crisis response, risk assessment, mandated reporting and early intervention, so every adult in the building knows what to do and why it matters.
How Jasmine Helps
Meet Jasmine
Jasmine Pearson has spent more than ten years in the place where student needs show up first: the counselor's office.
She began her career as a school counselor at Grimsley Senior High School in Greensboro and today serves as Dean of Student Support Services at Athens Drive High School in Raleigh. There she leads a multidisciplinary team of 12 serving more than 2,200 students, overseeing crisis response, behavioral threat and suicide risk assessment, complex case management and the policies that keep it all compliant.
Since 2014 she has also held leadership roles with the National Conference for Community and Justice, guiding high school and college-aged participants through intensive leadership and social justice programming and providing mental health support along the way.
A licensed clinical mental health counselor with an Educational Specialist degree, Jasmine blends clinical insight with on-the-ground school leadership. Audiences don't just leave inspired. They leave knowing exactly what to do on Monday.
View CredentialsReal experience leading student support in some of North Carolina's largest public high schools.
Work with Jasmine
Every engagement is tailored to your audience, from a single keynote to a semester-long partnership.
Keynotes and conference sessions that pair real stories from school leadership with frameworks your audience can use right away.
Interactive professional development for counselors, teachers, administrators and student services staff.
Hands-on support for schools, districts and programs that want student support systems built to last.
Credentials
Clinical training, advanced education and more than a decade of school leadership.
Leads crisis response, behavioral intervention and case management for 2,200+ students; supervises a team of 12; designs staff training on trauma-informed practice, mandated reporting and student mental health.
Directs program operations, provides crisis and mental health support, and facilitates dialogue on identity, leadership and social justice.
Book Jasmine
Tell Jasmine about your event, team or school. She'll follow up to talk through goals, audience and format.
Prefer email? Write to jasmine.pearson94@gmail.com · Based in Raleigh, North Carolina