How to Use guidance counselor in a Sentence

guidance counselor

noun
  • Speak to your child’s teacher and guidance counselor for starters.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Twice, a school guidance counselor walked near the pool’s edge near her, but didn’t look toward the water.
    — Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Once there, his guidance counselor, Clyde Archibeque, pulled him aside, reassured him and tied the tie for him.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Anabel Lago, her school guidance counselor, agrees.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The girl reported the rape a few days later to her guidance counselor, who notified police.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • These letters can be written by a teacher, guidance counselor or principal.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Stan, whose father has lost the family weed farm, seeks solace in school guidance counselor Jesus.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
  • By December, a guidance counselor had been hired, but the teachers were still awaiting background checks.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, guidance counselor Rick is intrigued to learn about poppers… and Harry shows up, too.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Talk to your daughter’s teacher or the school’s guidance counselor about strategies to integrate her into social life there.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • Leach organized the walkout after learning her favorite guidance counselor, who helped her through depression, was one of the staff members let go.
    — Samantha Chaney, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Schools will often assemble lists of programs that have been popular with previous students, so check with your child's guidance counselor.
    — Theo Wolf, CNBC, 1 May 2026
  • More than 20 years later, Chloe is a high school guidance counselor in New York City but big-city life is far from a fairytale.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
  • 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.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Another early investment came from his high school guidance counselor, Bobby Howard.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her last academic assignment was as a Douglass guidance counselor in 1985.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Reach out to your school’s principal, your favorite guidance counselor or leader of an organization that serves youth and ask them to submit nominations.
    — Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Over the next two and a half weeks, the police report indicates detectives interviewed four of the eight boys listed as suspects, three friends of the girl, her dad, her mom and the guidance counselor.
    — Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
  • Admission is by appointment and requires a $35 donation or is free with a referral from a student’s high school guidance counselor.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • After her death, Emony’s family learned of her acceptance onto Ocoee High’s cheer squad from her guidance counselor.
    — Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
  • School guidance counselor DeAnna Miller-Wooden was more than happy to provide strategic support along the way.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026

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