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• present participle of counsel.
• a variation of counseling.

counselling

British  

/ ˈkaʊnsəlɪŋ /

noun

1. guidance offered by social workers, doctors, etc, to help a person resolve social or personal problems

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Example Sentences

Bartlett, from Kent, said anti-depressants and counselling helped with particularly difficult bouts of anxiety and depression, but it was a chance experience on a recent holiday to Wales that helped turn things around.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

He said that staff who were found to have accessed patient records were subject to disciplinary processes ranging from "informal counselling to a final written warning".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Thilothama, who works for Thozhi, a Chennai-based charity supporting transgender people, has spent more than a decade helping others find work and counselling those navigating rejection and uncertainty.

From Barron's • May 3, 2026

At a human rights centre in Tehran, Aysha - whose name has been changed - is counselling a distressed mother on the telephone.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

And indeed Mr. Thomas Winter might best clear that good Father, with whom he was best acquainted, and knew very well how far he was from counselling or plotting that business.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John