This study investigated counselling seeking behaviour and adjustment of public secondary school students in Ekiti state, Nigeria. The study specifically determined the relationship between counselling seeking behaviour and adjustment (physical, social, academic and emotional) of public secondary school students. The descriptive research of the survey type was adopted in this study. The population for this study consisted of all senior secondary school students in pubic secondary schools in Ekiti State. The sample for the study consisted of 200 students drawn from 20 public secondary schools in Ekiti State. The sample was selected using multistage sampling procedure A self-developed questionnaire tagged Counselling Seeking Behaviour and Adjustment Questionnaire (CSBANQ) was used to collect data for the study. The instrument was validated by experts in the area of Guidance and Counselling. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha. A co-efficient value of 0.88 was obtained which was considered high enough to make the instrument reliable. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the counselling seeking behaviour of public secondary school students was low and not encouraging. It was further revealed that counselling seeking behaviour was related to physical, social and emotional adjustment of students. It was however revealed that counselling seeking behaviour of students was not related to academic adjustment. It was recommended among others that school should sensitize students on the need to inculcate counselling seeking behaviour and importance of counselling

Keywords: Counselling Seeking Behaviour, Adjustment, Students,

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