Abstract
Objectives In this study, a study was conducted to explore the difficulties experienced by married female counselors in the process of having expertise and what the professionalism of counseling of married female counselors means.
 Methods For the purpose of this study, Giorgi's phenomenological research was conducted, and interviews were conducted twice from November 2021 to February 2022 with nine married female counselors. For the collected data, data analysis was conducted through the process of overall recognition, analysis in semantic units, translation into academic terminology, and integration into semantic units.
 Results As a result, ‘Motivation for entering graduate school’, ‘Difficulty as a married woman’, ‘Efforts to meet the standards of experts’, ‘Expertise in counseling expertise’ 5 upper components of ‘re-evaluation of self’ and ‘perception of one's own change’, 16 sub-components, and 41 semantic unit components were derived.
 Conclusions This study has significance in exploring the difficulties that married female counselors experience in the process of professionalism in a patriarchal society, and in exploring the essential meaning of having counseling expertise for married female counselors. This is expected to be a meaningful data in the field of counseling, where the proportion of married female counselors is high.
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