counselling

VERB

give advice

Synonyms

STRONG

admonish advise advocate caution charge confab direct enjoin exhort guide huddle inform instruct kibitz order prescribe prompt recommend reprehend steer suggest teach tip tout urge warn

WEAK

give pointer give two cents keep posted put bug in ear put heads together put on to show the ropes tip off wise one up

Antonyms

STRONG

approve conceal discourage dissuade hide learn misguide mislead neglect prevent

Example Sentences

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"Counselling sessions at Echo helped Darshan confront what he had done, but also examine why he had done it," Fr Sebastian says.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026

Counselling has helped them but the anger and hate have seeped in deep.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023

Counselling has been offered to his staff and he said: "I was always told not to get attached to patients, but you have to be fairly heartless not to."

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2021

Counselling and therapy qualifications are also more widespread than life coaching, with services accessible via the NHS in the UK – a provision that does not extend to coaching.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2019

To avoyd which mistakes, and render to those termes of Commanding, Counselling, and Exhorting, their proper and distinct significations, I define them thus.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas