Joining your session

Cancelling a session

How to cancel, what you get back, and when rescheduling costs less.

Updated 28 October 2026By the Mytherapist.ng support team

You can cancel a session any time before it starts. Here's how, and what comes back to you.

How to cancel

  1. Open the session from the Therapy tab and tap Cancel, or Cancel request if your therapist hasn't confirmed yet.
  2. Choose a reason and check the fee shown.
  3. Tick the box and tap Cancel session.

What you get back

The cancellation fee is 20% of the session price, or ₦1,000 if that's more. Everything else goes straight back to your wallet.

For example, cancelling a ₦20,000 session refunds ₦16,000, and cancelling a ₦4,000 session refunds ₦3,000.

There's no fee for Prime members or for free sessions. Otherwise the fee applies whether or not your therapist has confirmed yet.

Just need a different time?

Rescheduling costs less than cancelling: ₦500, or ₦1,000 within 6 hours of the start. See Rescheduling a session.

Other situations

  • In-person sessions: a full refund, including the room fee, up to 24 hours before the start. After that, nothing is refunded.
  • Covered by your employer or health plan: you weren't charged, so there's nothing to refund.
  • Your therapist declined or didn't reply: there's no need to cancel. You're refunded in full, with no fee, automatically.

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