Grief is the natural emotional response to loss, particularly following the death of a loved one. Our therapists provide compassionate support to help individuals process their feelings, navigate the stages of grief, and find healthy ways to honor memories while moving forward with life.

Grief

Trauma and PTSD can develop after experiencing or witnessing shocking, dangerous, or frightening events. Our specialized therapists help clients process traumatic memories, reduce triggering responses, and develop coping strategies to reclaim a sense of safety and control in their lives.

Trauma and PTSD

Chronic stress occurs when life's demands consistently outpace your ability to cope with them. Our therapists help identify stress triggers, develop personalized stress management techniques, and create sustainable lifestyle changes to restore balance and improve overall wellbeing.

Chronic stress

Sleep problems can significantly impact mental health and daily functioning. Our experts work with clients to address insomnia, sleep disturbances, and unhealthy sleep patterns through evidence-based approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and sleep hygiene education.

Sleep problems

Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions characterized by abnormal eating behaviors and distressing thoughts about food, weight, and body image. Our specialized therapists provide compassionate support for recovery from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and other disordered eating patterns.

Eating disorders

Body image concerns involve persistent negative thoughts and feelings about your appearance that impact self-esteem and daily life. Our therapists help clients develop a healthier relationship with their bodies, challenge unrealistic ideals, and build confidence beyond physical appearance.

Body image concerns

Anger management therapy helps individuals who struggle with excessive or inappropriate anger responses. Our therapists work with clients to identify anger triggers, learn healthier expression of emotions, develop effective communication skills, and implement strategies to respond to frustration more constructively.

Anger management

Life transitions, whether planned or unexpected, can create significant stress and emotional challenges. Our therapists provide support during periods of change such as relocation, career shifts, relationship changes, and other major life adjustments, helping clients navigate uncertainty with resilience.

Life transitions

Cultural identity issues can arise when navigating between different cultural backgrounds, values, and expectations. Our culturally sensitive therapists help clients explore and integrate various aspects of their identity, address discrimination experiences, and develop a strong sense of self across cultural contexts.

Cultural identity issues

Faith and spirituality are important dimensions of many people's lives that can be sources of both comfort and conflict. Our therapists respect diverse spiritual beliefs and provide space to explore questions of meaning, purpose, religious struggles, and the integration of spirituality with other aspects of life.

Faith and spirituality

Marriage Counseling provides specialized support for couples facing relationship challenges, communication breakdowns, or those wanting to strengthen their partnership. Our licensed therapists help couples identify unhealthy patterns, develop effective communication skills, navigate conflicts constructively, rebuild intimacy and trust, and create more fulfilling relationships. Whether addressing specific issues like infidelity, financial disagreements, parenting conflicts, or seeking premarital guidance, our counselors create a safe, non-judgmental space where both partners can be heard and understood. Using evidence-based approaches including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method, we help couples rediscover connection and develop the tools for a resilient, satisfying marriage.

Marriage Counselling

Adoption and fostering bring unique joys and challenges for all involved. Our therapists support adoptive and foster families, birth parents, and adoptees with issues such as attachment, identity development, grief and loss, family integration, and navigating complex relationships.

Adoption and fostering

Pregnancy and fertility challenges can create significant emotional distress, relationship strain, and identity concerns. Our compassionate therapists provide support through infertility treatment, pregnancy loss, high-risk pregnancies, and the complex emotions that accompany reproductive journeys.

Pregnancy and fertility challenges

Autism spectrum disorders affect social interaction, communication, and behavior in diverse ways. Our specialized therapists help autistic individuals develop meaningful connections, navigate social environments, build on strengths, and address co-occurring conditions like anxiety or sensory sensitivities.

Autism spectrum disorders

ADHD (attention difficulties) can impact focus, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. Our therapists help clients understand their unique brain wiring, develop effective coping strategies, build executive functioning skills, and harness their creativity and strengths.

ADHD (attention difficulties)

Elderly care and aging present unique mental health considerations including retirement adjustment, physical health changes, loss of independence, and end-of-life concerns. Our therapists provide compassionate support to older adults navigating these transitions and to their caregivers.

Elderly care and aging

Childhood developmental issues can include delays or differences in language, motor skills, social interaction, or cognitive abilities. Our child specialists work with families to support healthy development, address specific challenges, and help children reach their full potential.

Childhood developmental issues

Bullying and cyberbullying can cause lasting psychological harm including anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal. Our therapists help children, adolescents, and adults recover from bullying experiences, rebuild self-esteem, develop assertiveness skills, and heal from social trauma.

Bullying and cyberbullying

Perfectionism involves setting unrealistically high standards and experiencing significant distress when those standards aren't met. Our therapists help clients recognize perfectionistic patterns, develop self-compassion, embrace "good enough," and find healthier ways to pursue excellence.

Perfectionism

Impulsive behaviors involve acting without adequate forethought about consequences, often resulting in regret or relationship difficulties. Our therapists help clients develop greater self-awareness, impulse control strategies, emotional regulation skills, and healthier decision-making processes.

Impulsive behaviors

Psychosis (unusual thoughts or perceptions) can include hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking that disconnect a person from shared reality. Our specialized therapists provide evidence-based approaches to help manage symptoms, reduce distress, and maintain connection with loved ones and community.

Psychosis (unusual thoughts or perceptions)

Pet loss and animal bonds are significant but often overlooked sources of grief. Our compassionate therapists acknowledge the deep connections we form with animal companions and provide specialized support for those grieving a pet or navigating difficult decisions around pet health.

Pet loss and animal bonds

Social anxiety and shyness can make everyday interactions feel overwhelming and limit participation in important life activities. Our therapists help clients gradually build confidence in social situations, challenge negative thoughts about judgment, and develop authentic connection skills.

Social anxiety and shyness

Postpartum challenges can include depression, anxiety, identity shifts, relationship changes, and adjustment to new responsibilities. Our therapists provide specialized support to new parents navigating the emotional complexities of the postpartum period and early parenthood.

Postpartum challenges

Empty nest syndrome refers to feelings of grief, loss of purpose, and identity confusion when children leave home. Our therapists help parents navigate this significant life transition, rediscover personal interests, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful new life chapters.

Empty nest syndrome

Burnout is a state of chronic stress leading to physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy. Our therapists help identify burnout sources, establish healthy boundaries, implement self-care practices, and reconnect with meaning and purpose in work and life.

burnout

Gender identity questions involve exploring one's internal sense of gender, which may differ from assigned sex at birth. Our affirming therapists provide a safe space to explore gender identity, navigate transition decisions if desired, address family dynamics, and build authentic self-expression.

Gender identity questions

Retirement adjustment can bring significant changes to daily structure, purpose, social connections, and identity. Our therapists help clients navigate this major life transition, process mixed emotions, develop new sources of meaning, and create fulfilling post-career lives.

Retirement adjustment

Academic and school stress can impact students' mental health, self-esteem, and enjoyment of learning. Our therapists help children, adolescents, and adult students develop healthy coping strategies, overcome test anxiety, balance responsibilities, and maintain wellbeing while pursuing educational goals.

Academic and school stress

Work-life balance challenges can lead to chronic stress, relationship strain, and reduced quality of life. Our therapists help clients establish healthier boundaries, clarify priorities, implement practical strategies for balancing demands, and create more sustainable approaches to career and personal life.

Work-life balance

Chronic pain and illness coping involves addressing the significant emotional and psychological impact of ongoing health challenges. Our therapists help clients develop resilience, manage healthcare-related anxiety, navigate changing capabilities, and maintain quality of life while living with chronic conditions.

Chronic pain and illness coping

Phobias and fears are intense, irrational anxieties about specific objects, activities, or situations that interfere with daily functioning. Our therapists use evidence-based approaches including exposure therapy to help clients gradually reduce fear responses and reclaim freedom in their lives.

Phobias and fears

Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors involve distressing, intrusive thoughts and repetitive actions performed to reduce anxiety. Our specialized therapists provide evidence-based treatment to help manage OCD symptoms, reduce ritual behaviors, and develop healthier responses to uncertainty.

Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors

Mood swings involve significant shifts in emotional state that can impact relationships, work performance, and self-perception. Our therapists help identify triggers, develop emotional regulation strategies, establish stabilizing routines, and address underlying causes of mood instability.

Mood swings

Personality challenges can include persistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that cause distress or interfere with relationships and functioning. Our therapists provide non-judgmental support to help clients develop greater self-awareness, improve interpersonal effectiveness, and build more fulfilling lives.

Personality challenges

Attachment issues stem from early relationship experiences and can affect adult connections, creating patterns of anxiety, avoidance, or disorganization in close relationships. Our therapists help clients understand their attachment style and develop more secure, satisfying relationships.

Attachment issues

Loneliness and isolation can significantly impact mental and physical health. Our therapists help clients address barriers to connection, develop social skills, process past relationship wounds, and build meaningful community involvement tailored to their personality and needs.

Loneliness and isolation

Codependency involves excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, often at the expense of one's own needs and wellbeing. Our therapists help clients develop healthier boundaries, improve self-care, build identity outside relationships, and create more balanced connections.

Codependency

Multicultural and immigration issues can include acculturation stress, identity conflicts, discrimination experiences, and family cultural differences. Our culturally responsive therapists help clients navigate these complex challenges while honoring their diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Multicultural and immigration issues

Seasonal mood changes, including Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), involve recurring depressive symptoms during specific times of year. Our therapists provide evidence-based approaches to manage seasonal mood fluctuations, including light therapy recommendations, behavioral activation, and cognitive strategies.

Seasonal mood changes

Technology addiction involves problematic patterns of device use that interfere with daily functioning, relationships, and wellbeing. Our therapists help clients develop healthier digital habits, address underlying needs that drive excessive use, and create more balanced lifestyles.

Technology addiction

Grief from traumatic loss occurs when death is sudden, violent, or under traumatic circumstances, complicating the normal grieving process. Our specialized therapists provide compassionate support for processing complex grief reactions, trauma symptoms, and finding paths to healing.

Grief from traumatic loss

Hoarding behaviors involve persistent difficulty discarding possessions regardless of their value, resulting in cluttered living spaces that compromise safety and functioning. Our therapists provide specialized support to address the emotional aspects of hoarding and develop healthier relationships with possessions.

Hoarding behaviors

Self-harm thoughts or behaviors involve deliberate self-injury without suicidal intent, often as a way to cope with overwhelming emotions. Our compassionate therapists help clients understand triggers, develop alternative coping strategies, address underlying issues, and create safety plans.

Self-harm thoughts or behaviors

Suicidal thoughts require immediate, compassionate intervention. Our crisis-trained therapists provide assessment, safety planning, and evidence-based treatment to help clients move through periods of crisis, address contributing factors, and build reasons for living.

Suicidal thoughts

Boundary setting involves defining and communicating personal limits in relationships. Our therapists help clients identify appropriate boundaries, overcome barriers to assertiveness, communicate needs effectively, and respond to boundary violations with confidence and clarity.

Boundary setting

Communication problems can create misunderstandings, conflict, and emotional distance in relationships. Our therapists help individuals and couples develop active listening skills, express needs clearly, navigate difficult conversations, and build deeper understanding and connection.

Communication problems

Life purpose and meaning questions often arise during transitions or existential crises. Our therapists provide space to explore values, aspirations, and sources of fulfillment, helping clients align their lives with what matters most and develop a stronger sense of purpose.

Life purpose and meaning

Personal growth and self-improvement involve intentional development of awareness, capabilities, and positive qualities. Our therapists support clients in identifying growth opportunities, overcoming internal obstacles, building on strengths, and creating lives of greater authenticity and fulfillment.

Personal growth and self-improvement

Family therapy addresses dynamics, communication patterns, and conflicts within family systems. Our family therapists help improve understanding between family members, resolve ongoing issues, navigate life transitions, and strengthen family bonds and resilience.

Family

Sexuality concerns can include questions about sexual identity, difficulties with intimacy, sexual dysfunction, past sexual trauma, or mismatched desires in relationships. Our therapists provide a non-judgmental space to address these sensitive issues and develop healthier sexual wellbeing.

Sexuality

Workplace challenges including toxic environments, conflicts with colleagues, performance anxiety, and leadership difficulties can significantly impact mental health. Our therapists help clients navigate workplace stressors, develop professional resilience, and create healthier work experiences.

Workplace

Domestic Violence involves patterns of abusive behavior used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Our trauma-informed therapists provide safe, confidential support for survivors, helping with safety planning, healing from abuse, and rebuilding lives.

Domestic Violence

Parenting brings joys and challenges that can significantly impact mental health. Our therapists support parents through difficulties with child behavior, co-parenting conflicts, parenting stress, developmental concerns, and finding balance while raising children of all ages.

Parenting

Depression involves persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest that interfere with daily life. Our therapists provide evidence-based treatments to help clients understand depression's roots, challenge negative thought patterns, rebuild motivation, and reconnect with joy and meaning.

Depression

Anxiety manifests as excessive worry, fear, and physical symptoms that can interfere with daily functioning. Our therapists provide evidence-based approaches to help clients understand anxiety triggers, develop effective coping strategies, challenge anxious thoughts, and reclaim freedom from fear.

Anxiety

Divorce and separation bring significant emotional challenges including grief, co-parenting difficulties, identity shifts, and practical life changes. Our therapists provide support through the divorce process, helping clients heal, establish new boundaries, and build fulfilling post-divorce lives.

Divorce

Relationship therapy addresses challenges in romantic partnerships, friendships, and family connections. Our therapists help couples and individuals improve communication, resolve conflicts, rebuild trust, deepen intimacy, and create healthier, more satisfying relationships.

Relationships

Career concerns can include job dissatisfaction, workplace stress, difficult transitions, decision-making challenges, and finding meaningful work. Our therapists help clients clarify professional values, overcome barriers, develop work-life balance, and create more fulfilling career paths.

Career

Financial concerns can create significant stress and impact mental health, relationships, and self-worth. Our therapists help clients explore emotional relationships with money, develop healthier financial behaviors, manage financial anxiety, and address money-related conflicts in relationships.

Finances

Substance Abuse treatment addresses problematic patterns of alcohol or drug use that impact health, relationships, and daily functioning. Our specialized therapists provide compassionate support for recovery, addressing underlying causes, developing coping skills, and creating sustainable sobriety plans.

Substance Abuse

Self-Esteem issues involve persistent negative beliefs about one's worth, abilities, or lovability. Our therapists help clients identify the roots of low self-esteem, challenge self-critical thoughts, develop self-compassion, recognize personal strengths, and build a stronger, more positive sense of self.

Empty nest syndrome Therapists in Nigeria

Therapists Specializing in Empty nest syndrome

Therapists/Nigeria/Empty nest syndrome

Dr Sonia Ovy

Chioma Aguh

Adaeze Okafor

Christopher Okadonye

Abosede Akinpade

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