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This study deals with how school counselors at primary and secondary schools work preventively with honour oppression and forced marriage in school. The study also deals with the obstacles and opportunities the school counselors have in their work. To fulfill the aim of this study we have interviewed five school counselors in primary school and secondary school. The interviews were based on a qualitative method, through semi-structured interviews. The results shows that school counselors identify the vulnerable students by the students themselves or someone in their environment telling about the situation. They also go out with information about the problem and at the same time show that they are available no matter what the subject is about in order to be able to defuse their role as school counselors. They help and support the students by talking and listening to them, by paying attention to identify oppression and also by calling social services for advice and practical efforts. The last theme deals with what obstacles and opportunities the school counselors encounter in their work. It appears that there are more obstacles than opportunities for the school counselors because they are limited in their work. They find that they can only talk, inform and exist as support for the students.