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his paper analyzes the prevalence of guidance and counseling services in Tanzanian secondary schools. The findings are derived from the study “Effectiveness of Guidance and Counseling in Facilitating Students’ Wellbeing in Tanzania” which attempted to compare the effectiveness of guidance and counseling on facilitating students’ wellbeing between public and private secondary schools in Tanzania. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design and included a total of 108 respondents. This paper opens our insight to the fact that guidance and counseling are not prevalent (not effectively existing) in most secondary schools due to the fact that the infrastructures and aspects related to guidance and counseling services do not exist in most schools. Therefore, the need to support its presence by creating the necessary conditions and infrastructures.