Career guidance practitioners often set high standards for professional ethics and values regarding an inclusive practice in relation to marginalized citizens. Inclusive practice, however, often places career guidance counsellors in a central role as a figure bridging center and periphery in the career guidance relationship, which ascribes the practitioner a critical and powerful role in completing political, ideological and societal goals. A phenomenological example study of encounters between career guidance counsellors and marginalized citizens with a focus on disgust and disgust sensation uncovers a deep and often silenced inequality between societal groups. Silenced, perhaps, because professional discourse regarding ethics and humanity does not allow a discourse concerning the interconnectedness of body, taste and class. The study proposes that career guidance practitioners should engage in learning activities that investigate the root of the practitioner’s own disgust sensations in terms of social and cultural habitus, which can enable the counsellor to take responsibility for bridging the gap between different societal groups.
