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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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.
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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
Janney's role as the high school guidance counselor who is more focused on writing her erotic novel than on her students is one in a long list of acting credits.
—Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
By the end of the episode, Lelia’s guidance counselor has threatened her with Tall Pines as an alternative to school, but in a twist of fate, Abbie is the one who ends up getting snatched in the middle of the night and taken to the prisonlike facility.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
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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
Janney's role as the high school guidance counselor who is more focused on writing her erotic novel than on her students is one in a long list of acting credits.
—Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
By the end of the episode, Lelia’s guidance counselor has threatened her with Tall Pines as an alternative to school, but in a twist of fate, Abbie is the one who ends up getting snatched in the middle of the night and taken to the prisonlike facility.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Guidance counselor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guidance%20counselor. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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