Introduction The project summarised in this report demonstrates how counsellors effectively facilitate learning in the course of attending to student wellbeing. students seek counselling to deal with problems, concerns, and struggles. In responding to student distress, school counsellors call on a repertoire of specialist therapeutic practices. many of these practices facilitate learning. This study shows how this learning, in counselling, can be understood in terms of the curriculum’s key competencies. The project demonstrates how the problems, concerns and struggles that young people experience directly shape the particular key competencies that are used and developed as learning occurs in counselling. It highlights the relevance of counselling skills and knowledge to the implementation