How to Use guidance counselor in a Sentence

guidance counselor

noun
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  • Baber said Bass was not his client’s guidance counselor.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Also speak to the school’s guidance counselor and ask for advice on how to protect this student.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 27 July 2024
  • This may look like staying in the car at the school parking lot or walking into the guidance counselor’s office and leaving.
    — USA Today, 15 May 2023
  • According to the suit, the guidance counselor didn't offer the option of using the girls bathroom or locker room.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Donna, meanwhile, worked as a guidance counselor at Michael B.’s middle school, as well as a teacher at his high school.
    — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Encourage him to speak to your mother for support and also to seek advice from the school guidance counselor.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 9 May 2024
  • An appeals court in Chicago this month ruled that a Catholic high school in Indianapolis was free to fire a gay guidance counselor.
    — Megan Smith, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • One of those who joined as a guidance counselor during Ms. Steinberg’s first summer is Kellsie Mensah, 19.
    — Casey Schwartz James Estrin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
  • That’s where the fourth person with a neutral stance could provide direction: her high school guidance counselor.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Finally, 20 minutes before the shooting, a guidance counselor asked to search the boy for the weapon, but Parker told him to hold off because his mother would be there soon.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But the Olympian quickly earned the teenager’s trust and friendship, and the pair would speak regularly – often in a guidance counselor’s office, Kriesberg said.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The new bill also requires that a behavioral health professional, such as a guidance counselor, be present for the training for students in these grades.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • She’s called into her guidance counselor’s office on the last day of the school year to discuss her slipping grades and the revocation of her volleyball captaincy.
    — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • Finally, less than an hour before the shooting, a guidance counselor asked Ebony Parker to search the boy for the gun after hearing a report about it, but he was rebuffed, the lawsuit alleges.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The cookbook author, blogger, and Food Network star felt her son should be able to solve the problem himself and said so, only to find out a guidance counselor was listening in on the conversation.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 June 2023
  • These letters can be written by a teacher, guidance counselor or principal.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The chiller involves a trail of cryptic social media posts used as clues by a 30-year-old guidance counselor who travels to Joshua Tree to locate her fiancé who vanished while on an overnight camping trip with his three best friends.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
  • As a longtime high school guidance counselor and football coach in the Anderson County, Kentucky, school system, Saver − who was retired at the time of his death − spent his time making a difference in the lives of young people.
    — Sheldon Gardner, The Enquirer, 13 June 2023
  • Less than an hour before the shooting, a school guidance counselor also asked the assistant principal to search the boy for the gun, but was rebuffed, according to Zwerner’s lawsuit.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Her last academic assignment was as a Douglass guidance counselor in 1985.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2023
  • For example, a part named Ada—age 16—first appeared in the wake of a catastrophic rejection by a high school guidance counselor after Ella shared her abuse history.
    — Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • The Houston Chronicle reports that Angela, a former school guidance counselor, could also seek to recuse herself.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
  • His father, Ben, owned and operated an auto-repair shop, and his mother, Phyllis (Valentine) Spurlock, was a junior high school and high school guidance counselor.
    — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • If needed, set up private therapy, speak to a guidance counselor, seek a friend or trusted adult, a youth pastor, or other religious or non-religious person, who is safe to speak with.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 13 June 2024
  • That was in Philadelphia in 1969, when as a high school senior, Seidelman was required by her guidance counselor to take an aptitude test to determine her career prospects.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Ask a pediatrician, health care provider, or school guidance counselor for a referral to an expert and schedule an evaluation.
    — Marisa Cohen, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Another early investment came from his high school guidance counselor, Bobby Howard.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Having lost most of her possessions during the eviction, Ms. Anderson relied on donations from people in her life, including her school guidance counselor, for dorm supplies.
    — Jacqui Germain, New York Times, 22 July 2023
  • Pierre, who has family members that are Rastafarian, Christian and Muslim, says the series hired someone akin to an Islamic guidance counselor who ensured an accurate portrayal of the leader’s faith.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Perhaps not a profession regularly suggested by a high school guidance counselor, but stage hypnotists are a dedicated bunch.
    — Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024

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