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This study aims to investigate the impact and extent of applying teachers' guidance and counseling on students’ discipline in private school. It attempts to answer these questions: what is the allocated time in counseling? What are the required skills of teachers? And what are the most important approaches of counseling? A questionnaire survey was used to obtain the results by distributing it to a sample of 150 private school teachers. Also, the open-end questions are preferred in the questionnaire survey. Validity and reliability test of the instruments was conducted; data was analyzed using percentages and descriptive analysis in SPSS software. The results showed that there is an impact of guidance and counseling on student' discipline in private schools. There is a lack on the number of counseling sessions and the teachers tend to use individual counseling, group counseling, and nondirective counseling approaches. However, the study's recommendations included: the importance of increasing guidance and counseling awareness, holding more counseling sessions and training programs for the teacher to improve the students' skills. (Published abstract)