Guidance and counseling is a service that is needed by the community in life, both education and other fields. So of course we also have to know more about the elements contained in counseling guidance, one of which is by understanding the counselor we will discuss.

The counselor is one of the elements contained in counseling guidance as an expert or professional officer in the field of counseling to provide services to the wider community. The counselor as someone who observes the personality, problems and other matters concerning the client in order to solve problems, provide advice, motivation and appropriate solutions according to the knowledge they master.

It can be said that counselors have enormous urgency, especially in the service of problems for the younger generation who are still synonymous with unstable attitudes.

Counselors also have several characteristics that we must know, including:

• Personality characteristics, namely the counselor as an educator and also as a mentor for the client being treated.

• Characteristics of knowledge, namely counselors have broad insight related to the psychological sciences and sciences that support the development of better counseling.

• Skill Characteristics, namely the ability of a counselor to build good communication with clients so that clients feel comfortable in expressing their feelings as well as counselors are able to provide information by interpreting it so that clients can easily understand it.

A counselor can be categorized as a professional counselor if he has the following characteristics or effective personality:

• Counselors who are open so that clients feel confident with what is interpreted by the counselor.

• Counselors have an in-depth understanding of the observations and assessments made.

• Counselors who have competence as good communicators.