Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is self-harming behavior without suicidal intent, so adolescents need to do help-seeking. One of the factors of help-seeking is emotional competence. This study aims to determine the relationship between emotional competence and help-seeking in adolescent perpetrators of DSH. Respondents totaled 103 people using purposive sampling technique. The results there is a relationship between emotional competence and help-seeking in adolescent DSH offenders (p = 0.000). The implications of this study can help adolescent perpetrators of DSH in overcoming their problems by increasing their emotional competence. And parents can be the first helper by communicating about what DSH adolescent perpetrators feel. And for future researchers, it is hoped that they can expand variables related to other factors related to emotional competence and can develop interventions to improve emotional competence in adolescent DSH perpetrators