0 someone who is trained to listen to people and give them advice about their problems:
1 a person whose job is to provide advice, help, or encouragement:
2 a lawyer:
a presidential counselor
The doctor suggested that I might like to see a counselor to help me deal with stress better.
A trained counselor can provide non-judgmental support, as often it is hard to speak openly to family and friends.
My colleague found that his sessions with the grief counselor helped him work through his feelings.
There's an excellent counselor at the alternative health clinic, and you can get various therapies there too.
He thinks people are too soft these days and that we'd be better off without all these counselors and therapists.
Nurses and physicians can also function as genetic counselors, and clergy and others will also have roles to play, albeit limited roles.
We do have trained counselors, but our volunteers are not therapists.
The counselors were trained on completing a range of assessment measures based on their observations and interactions with the children in their respective groups.
