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a professional who absorbs your chaos for an hour, then bills you for the privilege.
means A person trained to give guidance or advice, whether on emotional struggles, legal matters, or a kid's summer at the lake.
from From the Latin 'consilium,' meaning advice or deliberation — the same root behind 'council' and 'consult.' It traveled through Old French 'conseiller' before settling into English, carrying the sense of one who weighs matters and offers counsel. The spelling split from 'councilor' (a member of a council) only gradually, and the two are still cousins forever being mixed up.
- silence game
- strategic pauses make clients fill the gap, revealing more
- latin root
- from consilium, meaning deliberation or advice
- camp duty
- summer counselors herd kids and fight homesickness nightly
- legal twin
- in court, counselor simply means lawyer
- burnout risk
- absorbing trauma all day causes secondary stress disorders
white house counsel — senior legal advisor to the us president, currently staffed position
camp david accords — negotiated by jimmy carter as mediator/counselor between israel and egypt, 1978
icj court counsels — teams of legal advisors representing nations at the international court of justice