health professional

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.

Example Sentences

It’s time for a full transformation of community safety, beginning with extracting the RPD from responding to mental health crises and putting trained mental health professionals in charge.

From Time

In the wake of Prude’s death, the city created a Person in Crisis Team, which is meant to send mental health professionals rather than police to similar cases.

From Washington Post

Locally, school health professionals like nurses are eligible for vaccines now, while broader school employee ranks will be included in the next wave of vaccines – unless they meet other criteria already, like being at least 65 years old.

From Voice of San Diego

June Eassa, assistant superintendent in charge of student wellness, has hired “school-based health professionals” to support students.

From Washington Post

The best thing you can do is to go see a mental health professional—a therapist, a psychologist, a psychiatrist—and talk to them about how to handle these newfound feelings.

From Popular-Science

He was told he could return only if, among other things, a mental health professional agreed he did not present a danger.

From The Daily Beast