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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.
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