Challenges and expectations that are nowadays being put ahead of a practitioner, require a range of professional competences both in his/her work with children and in providing the counselling support to parents. Practitioners are not counsellors by profession, yet they apply counselling skills in their everyday work. The aim of this paper is to determine the opinions and attitudes of parents on the role of practitioners and professional associates in offering the counselling support. The survey has been conducted on a sample of 283 parents of the preschool children in the kindergartens of two Croatian counties: the City of Zagreb and Primorsko-goranska County. The findings show that almost all parents feel open to accept the counselling support, and of total number 40 percent of parents have needed the counselling support from practitioners and 23 percent of them from professional associates. The parents have evaluated that they are to a greater extent content with the availability and quality of support by practitioners and professional associates, and this assessment is influenced by parental expectations and previous experiences of receiving counselling support. Likewise, they show positive attitude toward the counselling support by practitioners. A higher level of the perceived support from a practitioner is associated with a higher level of the perceived support from a professional associate, as well as with a positive attitude. Parents' age is not related to any of the factors, and the length of children's stay in kindergarten's groups, i. e. the length of acquaintance between practitioners and parents is linked to a positive opinion on the practitioners' support and to the more positive attitude of parents toward the counselling support by practitioners. These findings make a valuable contribution to understanding of the parenting perspective to providing support within the centres for early childhood and preschool care and education, above all in the dimension of counselling support from practitioners to parents.