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# counselling

«counselling» in Mova's school dictionary: **Help and advice from a trained person who listens to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (counselling, uncountable); US spelling counseling; verb counsel

### meaning for a pupil

1) Help and advice from a trained person who listens to someone with problems or worries and helps them think things through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#m1)

2) Advice in general (formal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school, children may get counselling after a hard time like a family break-up, bullying or the death of someone close. Many schools have a counsellor. Phrases: "go to counselling", "school counselling", "grief counselling", "marriage counselling".

### examples

- After Grandad died, I had some counselling at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#x1)
- Counselling helped her feel less worried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#x2)
- The school counsellor listens and keeps things private. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#x3)
- Mum and Dad went to counselling to talk things through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#x4)
- There is free counselling for children on helplines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#x5)
- Counselling is a safe place to talk about feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/#x6)

### note

British spelling: counselling (double l); American: counseling. Uncountable. Do not confuse with "council" (a group that runs a town) or "councillor". Going to counselling is normal and brave, not a sign of being weak.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «counselling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counselling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.