Sleep and Somatic Symptom Therapists in Nigeria

You have done the tests. The ECG was fine, the ulcer medicine did not help, the headaches have no cause, and you still cannot sleep past 3am. Somatic symptoms are real symptoms in the body that stress, anxiety, trauma or low mood produce or make worse: chest tightness, internal heat, palpitations, pain, dizziness, fatigue. Insomnia often sits alongside them, and the two feed each other. In Nigeria these are the symptoms most people take to a hospital, a chemist or a prayer house first. The therapists here are often the last stop, and should be an earlier one.

Sessions happen inside the Mytherapist.ng app, by video, voice or chat. For sleep, you will keep a simple diary between sessions; for body symptoms, you will track what makes them better and worse. You book and pay in the app. Your therapist works alongside your doctor, not instead of them, and will want to know what has been ruled out.

This page suits people with insomnia that has lasted more than a month, people who sleep but wake exhausted, anyone with recurring nightmares or sleep paralysis, shift workers, and people whose body symptoms have been checked and found to have no medical cause but are still very real. It also suits people with a chronic illness such as sickle cell, diabetes or hypertension where stress is making it harder to manage.

A first session covers your sleep pattern or symptoms in detail, what you have tried, what the doctors have said, and what is going on in your life around them. For insomnia, the main approach is CBT for insomnia (CBT-I), which usually works within four to eight sessions. Browse the therapists below to compare backgrounds and rates.