Michelle Sircy

Dr. Michelle Sircy has served in public education for over 20 years. Her service includes work as a special education teacher, high school counselor, specialist for school counseling services for Jefferson County/Louisville, KY Public Schools, where she led over 300 school counselors, and she currently serves as the Coordinator for Comprehensive School Counseling at the Kentucky Department of Education. Dr. Sircy is also an adjunct professor at Spalding University where she teaches courses in the school counselor preparation program.

While at JCPS, she co-led the district crisis team, where she developed over 400 personalized crisis plans for schools throughout the last 10 years. Dr. Sircy also led suicide prevention efforts for 70,000 students in grades 2nd-12th, and with over 15,000 adults. Michelle Sircy is the past president of the Kentucky Counseling Association, Kentucky high school counselor of the year, and the Kentucky school counselor advocate of the year. She has led numerous national trainings on the school counselor’s role in equity work, school counseling data, how to be an ally, new school counselor academies, and comprehensive systems of support for students.

Michelle Sircy’s passion resides in improving mental health services, leading school counselor work in addressing racial equity at the school level, data driven school counseling and empowering school based mental health teams to develop, plan and support students through various crisis.