lay analyst

From my perspective as a longtime, but lay, analyst of climate science, my sense is she has it right.

Barkouras' successful defense: he was a lay analyst and needed no license.

Her lawyer, George Miskovsky, referred to Barkouras in court as "a big, strong stud lay analyst."

Born in 1552, the self-educated country bumpkin who set up shop in London as an astrologer and unlicensed doctor soon became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society.

Lindner, dubbed a "lay analyst" by the Brahmins of psychiatry because he is a Ph.D. but no M.D., is a practicing analyst in Baltimore.