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This research focuses on Counseling Guidance Teachers' Efforts to overcome students who have feelings of inferiority where these students are indicated to have visible symptoms such as not having self-confidence, tending to close themselves off or withdrawfrom the social environment, and excessive worry that has a background by a deficiency in the form of physical disability suffered. Therefore the BK teacher as a service executor provides assistance to students who practice feelings of inferiority. The purpose of this study was to find out how the guidance and counseling teacher's efforts to overcome feelings of inferiority in these students. The research methodology used is descriptive qualitative, to describe the efforts of guidance and counseling teachers to overcome feelings of inferiority. This study uses data collection techniques, interviews and documentation obtained from key informants and supporting informants in the field. The key informant was one of the guidance and counseling teachers and the supporting informants were 2 students who indicated they were experiencing feelings of inferiority. The data analysis technique that the researcher uses is data reduction, data display, data verification, while the data validity technique that the researcher uses is data triangulation. The results of the study showed that the efforts made by the guidance and counseling teacher in overcoming feelings of inferiority in students at MTsN 1 Padang Pariaman were providing preventive, curative and developmental efforts. Preventive efforts are being made, namely by providing information to students what feelings of inferiority are like and how to overcome them and their characteristics, then there are curative efforts where the counseling teacher provides assistancein alleviating problems by means of an individual psychological counseling approach and individual counseling services. Development efforts are given to students by providing reinforcement, encouragement, motivation and motivation so that students are able to develop their talents in the fields they are interested in.