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Psychiatric Hospitals in Kano: Dawanau and AKTH
Where to get psychiatric care in Kano: the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital at Dawanau, AKTH, drug treatment, what a first visit involves and emergency help.
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.
Losing a Spouse: Grief and What Comes After
What grief after losing a husband or wife can look like, when it needs help, your rights against harmful widowhood rites, and the paperwork that follows.
Islam and Therapy: Common Questions
Is therapy haram? What Islam teaches about seeking treatment, whether depression means weak iman, ruqyah alongside therapy, and choosing a therapist you trust.
Co-Parenting After Separation
How to co-parent after a separation in Nigeria: a written parenting plan, calmer messages, extended family, school fees, and what to do when it isn’t safe.
Living With a Partner Who Has Bipolar
What bipolar disorder means for your marriage, the early signs partners spot, how to plan for money, safety and pregnancy, and how to look after yourself.
Binge Eating Disorder: Signs and Help
Binge eating disorder is more than overeating: repeated binges with a loss of control. The signs, how it differs from comfort eating, and treatment that works.
Cyclothymia: The Milder Mood Swing
Cyclothymia means years of highs and lows that are milder than bipolar disorder but real. The symptoms, how it differs from bipolar and BPD, and what helps.
Social Anxiety at Parties and Owambes
Why weddings, owambes and office parties fill some people with dread, why a drink doesn’t really help, and what does: before, during and after.
Vaping, Nicotine and Your Mood
Why vaping feels calming but can keep you anxious, what research says about vaping and mood, the law in Nigeria, and how to cut down or quit.
Leaving Your Parents Behind When You Japa
Guilty about leaving your parents behind when you japa? How to set up care before you go, stay close from abroad, share the load with siblings, and cope.
Starting Over After 40: Job Loss in Nigeria
Lost your job in your 40s or 50s? What makes it harder in Nigeria, the routes people actually take back to work, protecting your family, and your mind.
Will My Therapist Tell My Parents?
Whether a therapist can tell your parents depends mostly on your age. What Nigerian law says for under-18s and adults, when they’d share, and where to get help.
When Can a Therapist Break Confidentiality?
What a therapist in Nigeria can share and when: your consent, court orders, serious risk of harm and the few laws that require reporting a crime.
Secondary Infertility: When Baby Two Won’t Come
Struggling to conceive after a previous pregnancy? What secondary infertility is, why it happens, why it hurts, when to see a doctor, and how to cope together.
Traditional Healers and Mental Illness
Why many families see a healer first, what healers do, where it goes wrong, what the law says about chaining, and how to use healing and medical care safely.
Selective Mutism in Children
Your child talks at home but goes silent at school. What selective mutism is, how it differs from shyness, autism and a new language, and what really helps.
Alcohol and Anxiety: Breaking the Cycle
Why a drink calms you for an hour but leaves you more anxious the next day, how alcohol affects sleep, when drinking to cope is a warning sign, and what helps.
How to Stop Drinking Safely
If you drink every day, stopping suddenly can be dangerous. How to tell if you’re dependent, withdrawal warning signs, safe ways to cut down or stop, and help.
When Your Partner Is Addicted to Betting
When your husband, wife or partner is addicted to betting: the signs, how to protect your money, how to raise it, keeping yourself safe, and support for you.
How to Stop Betting: A Practical Plan
A step-by-step plan to stop betting: set your goal, cut off access, take money out of reach, handle football-day urges, get support and plan for slips.
Betting Debt: What to Do After Big Losses
Lost big on betting and owe money to friends, banks or loan apps? How to stop the damage, deal with lenders, report loan-app harassment, and get support now.
Getting Help for Gambling Addiction in Nigeria
Betting addiction is treatable. What works, where to get help in Nigeria, Lagos’s SafePlay self-exclusion register, blocking tools, and what to do in a crisis.
Chronic Pain and Depression
Chronic pain and depression often feed each other. Why it happens, what helps with pain, sleep and mood, and the risk of painkillers bought without advice.
Diabetes, Hypertension and Your Mood
How diabetes and high blood pressure connect with depression and anxiety, what diabetes distress is, when anxiety might be low blood sugar, and what helps.
Living With HIV: The Mental Health Side
Depression is common with HIV, often missed, and treatable. How it affects treatment, what U=U means, your rights under Nigerian law, and where to get support.
Sickle Cell and Mental Health
How sickle cell affects mood, from pain crises to stigma and genotype worries, how parents cope, and where people living with sickle cell can get support.
Chronic Illness and Depression in Nigeria
Depression is common with diabetes, hypertension, sickle cell, HIV and chronic pain. How to spot it, why it matters for your health, and what helps.
Male Infertility and the Silence Around It
A male factor is involved in close to half of couples who struggle to conceive. The causes, the semen test, what’s treatable, “sperm boosters”, and the silence.
Erectile Difficulty and Your Mental Health
How anxiety, stress and depression feed erection problems, when it’s a sign to see a doctor, the risk of fake “man power” products in Nigeria, and what helps.
Social Anxiety at Work: Meetings and Presentations
Why meetings, presentations and calls feel so hard with social anxiety, the habits that keep the fear going, what actually helps, and how to ask for support.
Slimming Teas: Risks to Body and Mind
What’s really in slimming and “flat tummy” teas, why the weight comes back, the hidden-drug risk, what a NAFDAC number means, and when it’s more than a diet.
IVF in Nigeria: The Emotional Side
Going through IVF in Nigeria? The emotional ups and downs of a cycle, cost and secrecy, what the law does and doesn’t cover, faith questions, and what helps.
What Your Therapist Writes in Their Notes
What therapists usually write in session notes, who can see them in Nigeria, the legal exceptions to confidentiality, and your right to see or correct them.
Yaba Left: What to Expect at FNPH Yaba
Yaba Left is the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba. Where it is, what it treats, what happens at your first visit, what to bring, and your rights there.
Panic Attacks at Night: Why They Happen
Why panic attacks wake you from sleep, how they differ from nightmares and night terrors, other causes a doctor should check, and what helps you sleep again.
Panic Attack or Heart Attack?
Panic attacks and heart attacks share many symptoms, and there’s no safe way to tell them apart at home. The warning signs, what to do now, and what helps.
The First Month After Losing Your Job
Just lost your job in Nigeria? A plan for the first month: final pay and paperwork, your money runway, your pension, health cover, routine and your mind.
Choosing an Autism School or Centre in Lagos
How to choose an autism school or centre in Lagos: what good support looks like, red flags, how to check approvals and licences, public options, and your child’s rights.
Suicide Prevention: How to Ask the Question
Worried someone is thinking about suicide? How to ask directly, what to say and avoid, how to keep them safe, and who to call in Nigeria.
Making a Safety Plan Before You Need It
A safety plan is a short list you write while calm, for when thoughts of suicide come. What goes in it, how to make one, and who to call in Nigeria.
Living on the Corper Allowance Without Panic
The NYSC allowance is ₦77,000 a month. What you really get, what can reduce it, how to budget it in any posting, and how to handle money pressure calmly.
Lonely at Your PPA: Getting Through the Year
What PPA means in NYSC, why the service year gets lonely, and a month-by-month plan for making friends, filling empty days, staying safe and looking after your mind.
NYSC Redeployment: Coping With the Stress
How NYSC redeployment (relocation) works in 2026: the grounds, the windows, documents, why it’s free, what to do about security fears, and coping while you wait.
Childlessness in Marriage: Handling Family Pressure
In-laws asking, prayer meetings you didn’t ask for, talk of a second wife. How couples facing childlessness can handle family pressure as a team, in Nigeria.
Autism in Adults: Signs and Getting Assessed
Many autistic adults were never diagnosed as children. Signs in adults, why online tests can’t diagnose, and how to get assessed in Nigeria.
‘Pray About It’: Answering Your Family
Your family says “just pray about it” when you mention therapy. What they usually mean, words you can use, and what Christian and Muslim teaching says.
Long-Distance Love After Japa
One of you has japa’d and the other is still in Nigeria. How to keep a long-distance relationship going: a shared timeline, time zones, money and trust.
Marriage Under Financial Strain
Money problems in marriage usually hurt through secrecy and blame, not only the shortfall. How Nigerian couples can talk about money, debt and family demands.
When Your Partner Is Depressed and You’re Tired
Your partner is depressed and you’re running on empty, maybe even resentful. Why that happens, why it doesn’t make you a bad partner, and what helps you both.
Narcissist or NPD? What the Difference Means
“Narcissist” is everyday slang; narcissistic personality disorder is an uncommon diagnosis. What the difference means, and what to do about the behaviour.
Are Tramadol and Codeine Banned in Nigeria?
Tramadol 50 and 100 mg is legal with a prescription; 225 mg never was. What the 2018 codeine ban covers, the penalties, travel rules, and how to stop safely.
Choosing a Rehab Centre in Nigeria: What to Look For
How to choose a drug or alcohol rehab centre in Nigeria: what good treatment looks like, red flags, questions to ask, and public options in Lagos and Abuja.
Psychiatric Hospitals in Abuja: Where to Go
Where to get psychiatric care in Abuja: National Hospital, UATH, Garki Hospital, district hospitals, private clinics, and what to do in an emergency.
Psychiatric Hospitals in Lagos: Public and Private
Where to get psychiatric care in Lagos: Yaba, LUTH, LASUTH, state hospitals and private clinics, how to get seen, what it costs, and emergency help.
How to Check On Your Guy Friends
Men rarely say they’re struggling. How to notice, what to say or text, how to ask about suicide, and how to help a friend in Nigeria get support.
Shift Work and Your Mind
Night shifts and rotas wreck sleep and wear down mood. A practical plan for nurses, security staff, rotation workers and anyone whose day starts at night.
Ember Months in Nigeria: Meaning, Myths and How to Cope
What the ember months are, why Nigerians brace for September to December, what crash records actually show, and a plan for getting to January intact.
Nightmares That Won’t Stop
When bad dreams become a pattern you dread going to bed for. What drives recurring nightmares, and the rehearsal technique with the best evidence.
WhatsApp After Hours: Boundaries With Work
The group is active at 11pm and everyone is replying. How to stop your job living in your pocket without becoming the person who is hard to reach.
Sleep Paralysis: Ogun Oru or Sleep Disorder?
Awake, unable to move, something in the room. What sleep paralysis actually is, why the spiritual reading is so widespread here, and how to reduce it.
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