guidance counselor
noun
US
: a person who gives help and advice to students about educational and personal decisions
Her high school guidance counselor suggested she apply to Harvard.
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Josephine’s former guidance counselor recalls that words, tastes, and colors would sometimes get mixed up in her head—episodes that left her distressed and that the counselor never understood.
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Jp Mangalindan, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
The lawsuit accuses former school administrator Ebony Parker of failing to act after the first-grade teacher, the guidance counselor, the music teacher and the reading specialist informed her that the boy might have a gun.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
With a nudge from Aurora and the school's guidance counselor, Lilly-Anne Brigente (Hemmens), Isaiah decides to save the Christmas show and jumps in as director.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Milford, who appeared twice on Broadway early in her career, also played the fiancée of Don Murray’s character in Franco Zeffirelli’s Endless Love (1981) and was the hippie Westerburg High School guidance counselor Pauline Fleming in Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1988).
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
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Jp Mangalindan, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
The lawsuit accuses former school administrator Ebony Parker of failing to act after the first-grade teacher, the guidance counselor, the music teacher and the reading specialist informed her that the boy might have a gun.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
With a nudge from Aurora and the school's guidance counselor, Lilly-Anne Brigente (Hemmens), Isaiah decides to save the Christmas show and jumps in as director.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Milford, who appeared twice on Broadway early in her career, also played the fiancée of Don Murray’s character in Franco Zeffirelli’s Endless Love (1981) and was the hippie Westerburg High School guidance counselor Pauline Fleming in Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1988).
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Guidance counselor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guidance%20counselor. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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