Insights from Mytherapist.ng

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.

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.