READ THIS FIRST. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, please get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic immediately. If you are in crisis, consider these helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide.
Crisis numbers in Nigeria
- She Writes Woman, 0800 800 2000, toll-free and answered at any hour: Tel: 0800 800 2000
- SURPIN, Suicide Research and Prevention Initiative: Toll-free: +234-8000787746 | Tel: +234-908-021-7555 | Tel: +234-903-440-0009 | Tel: +234-814-224-1007
- Lagos Lifeline, from Lagos State, 24 hours: Tel: 070 0000 6463, published as the toll-free line | Tel: 020 1410 6463 | WhatsApp: 090 9000 6463
- Asido Foundation, Ibadan: Tel: +234 902 808 0416 | Tel: +234 818 077 7458 | WhatsApp: +234 902 808 0416
- All crisis lines in Nigeria
Nigeria has 94 therapists listed on TherapyRoute, including clinical psychologists, psychologists and counsellors.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 94 (Clinical Psychologists 31, Psychologists 10, Counsellors 5, CBT Psychotherapists 4, Counselling Psychologists 4, Family Therapists 3, Professional Counsellors 3, Psychotherapists 3). Professions given by 76 of them.
- Languages
- English 100%, Yoruba 33%, French 4%, Afrikaans 1%, Spanish 1%.
The summary above sets out how the practitioners listed across Nigeria differ from one another. If you know where you want to be seen, the city pages below each carry that place's own list. Filtering for practitioners who work online shows everyone in Nigeria available by video, wherever they are based. Two or three enquiries is normal, and a first conversation is where most people decide.
Cities in Nigeria with therapists listed
A therapist who practises in more than one city is listed under each.
Places with a therapist and no page of their own yet (11)
These are recorded against a therapist on TherapyRoute and have no listing page yet, so there is nothing to send you to and no count we can stand behind.
Awka, Bwari, Enugu, Ezza North, Ido, Ikorodu, Mubi, Ojo, Ona Ara, Ota, Owerri
Nigeria regulates mental-health care in a mixed way. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor, licensed by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. That council keeps the register of practitioners and holds the protected medical titles.
Occupational therapists and speech therapists answer to the Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board of Nigeria, and psychiatric nurses to the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. For a psychologist, counsellor or psychotherapist there is no statutory register to check, so ask about qualifications, supervision and any professional-body membership. Verify with Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board of Nigeria (MRTB) or Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN).
What a therapist charges in Nigeria is not something anyone publishes. Private therapists set their own fees, and no Nigerian professional body issues a fee schedule, so pages quoting exact naira rates are quoting themselves rather than a source. The public route runs through the federal neuropsychiatric hospitals and the psychiatric departments of teaching hospitals, and none of those publishes a fee either.
The most reliable step is to ring the hospital nearest you and ask what registration and a therapy consultation cost. What health insurance covers varies plan by plan, so check yours before booking.
What a session costs varies with training, setting and where the practice is. How to think about the cost of therapy in Nigeria sets out the current picture.
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TherapyRoute is a clinician-led directory that champions independent practitioners who answer to you and their professional ethics, not to investors or corporate interests. We don't take commissions, sell your data, or assign therapists by algorithm. You browse, compare, and choose.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
TherapyRoute is not for emergencies and does not provide medical advice. All of our content is informational and cannot replace professional healthcare. In an emergency, contact a local emergency service. For immediate support, consider a local helpline.