counsel
noun
advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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"They have been counselling now for two hours."
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Randall Parrish