Insights from Mytherapist.ng

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.

Why guidance and counselling matters: better subject and career choices, early help with personal problems, and a route to specialist care. With the evidence.

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 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 is Nigeria’s main counselling association. Its membership tiers, the CCN and LPCN credentials, how to register, and how it links to CPCN registration.

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.

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.

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.

Counsellor, clinical psychologist, social worker or psychiatrist: the degrees, supervised practice and registration each route needs in Nigeria, explained.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Is therapy haram? What Islam teaches about seeking treatment, whether depression means weak iman, ruqyah alongside therapy, and choosing a therapist you trust.

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.

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 is more than overeating: repeated binges with a loss of control. The signs, how it differs from comfort eating, and treatment that works.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 often feed each other. Why it happens, what helps with pain, sleep and mood, and the risk of painkillers bought without advice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.