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Weight Loss Injections in Nigeria: Ozempic, Mounjaro, Risks
Is Ozempic or Mounjaro registered in Nigeria? What NAFDAC’s Greenbook showed, the fake pens it has warned about, the risk of buying from vendors, the mind side.
Sapa: Coping With Money Stress When You’re Broke
Sapa is more than being broke: it’s the shame, the 3am sums and the hiding. How to get through a dry stretch, protect the basics and look after your mind.
Psychiatric Hospitals in Enugu: FNPH, UNTH and More
Where to get psychiatric care in Enugu: the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in New Haven, UNTH at Ituku-Ozalla, what a first visit costs and emergency help.
PCOS and Mental Health: Depression, Anxiety and Mood
PCOS, now renamed PMOS, raises the odds of depression and anxiety. Why that happens, what doctors are told to check, and where to get diagnosed in Nigeria.
Is Guidance and Counselling a Good Course in Nigeria?
What you study, where to study it, the jobs it leads to, and honest pros and cons of a guidance and counselling degree in Nigeria, now that it’s regulated.
Psychiatric Hospitals in Port Harcourt: UPTH and Beyond
Psychiatric care in Port Harcourt: UPTH’s neuropsychiatric clinic, what a first visit involves, the Rumuigbo hospital, private care and emergency help.
Can Stress Cause Malaria? No. Here’s Why It Feels Like It
No. Malaria comes from a parasite carried by mosquitoes. Why stress and burnout feel like malaria, why you test before you treat, and what negative tests mean.
Jealousy in Relationships: What It’s Telling You
Some jealousy in a relationship is normal. What yours may be telling you, when it turns into checking and control, and how to calm it, on either side.
Psychiatric Hospitals in Benin City: Where to Get Help
Where to get psychiatric care in Benin City: the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital at Uselu, its published fees, UBTH’s mental health department, emergencies.
Health Insurance Cost in Nigeria: NHIA, State and HMO Prices
What health insurance costs in Nigeria, from each scheme’s own pages: NHIA’s GIFSHIP, state schemes, HMO retail plans, and what cheap plans leave out.
Ethics in Counselling: Principles Every Client Should Know
The five ethical principles of counselling, what confidentiality and boundaries mean, the warning signs, and what to do in Nigeria if something feels wrong.
Psychiatric Hospitals in Nigeria: The Full List by Region
All nine federal neuropsychiatric hospitals, the state psychiatric hospitals and the teaching hospitals with psychiatry departments, by region, with contacts.
Emotional Eating: Why You Eat When Stressed, and What Helps
Emotional eating is eating to cope with a feeling, not hunger. Why stress drives it, how it differs from binge eating disorder, and what helps, without a diet.
Divorce in Nigeria: Coping With the Emotional Side
Divorce in Nigeria brings grief, relief, judgement and money worries. How to cope in the first months, help your children, and understand the legal routes.
Psychiatric Hospitals in Ibadan: UCH and Where Else to Go
Where to get psychiatric care in Ibadan: UCH’s psychiatry clinic days, how to get seen, the state hospital unit, Aro in Abeokuta, costs and emergency help.
Can Stress Cause Ulcer? What Really Causes Stomach Ulcers
Not on its own. Most ulcers come from H. pylori or anti-inflammatory painkillers. How stress fits in, why pain gets called ulcer, and when to see a doctor.
Goals of Counselling: What Counselling Aims to Do
The goals of counselling: understanding yourself, coping, deciding, changing, relating better. Who sets them, how to word a useful goal, and why it matters.
Aro, Abeokuta: What to Expect at the Psychiatric Hospital
Aro is the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Abeokuta. Where it is, how to contact it, what it treats, what a first visit involves, costs and your rights.
Guilt vs Shame: The Difference and Why It Matters
Guilt says “I did something bad”. Shame says “I am bad”. How to tell them apart, why shame does more harm, and what to do with each feeling in daily life.
NDLEA: Full Meaning, What It Does and How It Treats Users
NDLEA means National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. What it does, its counselling centres and free helpline, drug tests for jobs, and your rights if arrested.
Stages of Group Counselling: What Happens in Each
The stages of group counselling explained: Corey’s initial, transition, working and final stages, Tuckman’s forming to adjourning, and what members can expect.
Situationships: Why They Hurt and How to Decide
What a situationship is, why the uncertainty hurts, how to have the “what are we?” talk, and how to decide whether to stay, commit or walk away.
Counselling Jobs in Nigeria: Where to Find Them (2026)
Where counselling and therapy jobs are in Nigeria, from schools and NGOs to companies and online platforms, and what employers ask for, including the law.
Dealing With In-Laws in Nigeria: Boundaries Without War
How to deal with difficult in-laws in Nigeria: facing them as a couple, what to say about visits, money and children, and what to do when it goes too far.
Problems of Guidance and Counselling in Nigeria: Solutions
Too few counsellors, other duties, no funds or rooms, little training: the problems Nigerian studies have found in school counselling, and what helps.
Why Do I Get Angry So Easily? 10 Possible Reasons
Snapping over small things, at your partner, or crying when you’re angry? Ten common reasons, from sleep and hunger to depression and trauma, and what helps.
Counselling Techniques and Skills: What Counsellors Do
The listening skills every counsellor uses, and the main techniques from person-centred, CBT and solution-focused work, with real examples of how they sound.
Loan App Harassment in Nigeria: Rights and Where to Report
Loan app calling your contacts or threatening you? What Nigeria’s 2025 digital lending rules say, how to report to the FCCPC, and how to cope with the shame.
Importance of Guidance and Counselling in Nigerian Schools
Why guidance and counselling matters: better subject and career choices, early help with personal problems, and a route to specialist care. With the evidence.
Introducing Pay for me and Sponsors: let someone else pay for your therapy
Someone else can now pay for your therapy on Mytherapist.ng without seeing your sessions. How Pay for me links and Sponsors work, and what to expect.
Rebuilding Trust After Cheating: What Helps Both of You
Rebuilding trust after cheating takes honesty, time and work from both partners. What helps the hurt partner, what the one who cheated must do, and when to go.
CASSON: Membership, CCN, LPCN and How Counsellors Register
CASSON is Nigeria’s main counselling association. Its membership tiers, the CCN and LPCN credentials, how to register, and how it links to CPCN registration.
Guidance and Counselling in Nigeria: History and Today
From 1959 career talks in Ibadan to CASSON, university departments and a 2022 Act: how guidance and counselling grew in Nigeria, and where it stands now.
What Is Guidance and Counselling? Meaning and Types
Guidance helps you make choices; counselling helps you work through problems. What each means, how they differ, the types of guidance and its Nigerian roots.
What Is Group Therapy? How It Works and Who It Helps
Group therapy means a few people meeting regularly with a trained therapist. How sessions work, the main types, what research says, and how privacy works.
How to Become a Therapist in Nigeria: 4 Routes (2026)
Counsellor, clinical psychologist, social worker or psychiatrist: the degrees, supervised practice and registration each route needs in Nigeria, explained.
Earn rewards with bounties on Mytherapist.ng
Post about Mytherapist.ng, make a video or share your story, and earn wallet credit or free months of Prime. How bounties work, the rules and how to start.
Group therapy sessions are here
Small groups led by a licensed therapist, every week or every two weeks, from ₦5,000 a month. Why we built group therapy, who it helps and how to join.
Q3 2026, wrapped: everything that changed on Mytherapist.ng
Prime, a redesigned app, questionnaires from your therapist, more ways to pay and 80+ new articles. Everything that changed on Mytherapist.ng from July to September.
Pricing Your Therapy Practice in Nigeria
What 116 Nigerian therapists charge per session, and how to set your own fee: your cost floor, fair benchmarks, couples and student rates, and raising fees.
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