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Too few counsellors, other duties, no funds or rooms, little training: the problems Nigerian studies have found in school counselling, and what helps.

Why guidance and counselling matters: better subject and career choices, early help with personal problems, and a route to specialist care. With the evidence.

CASSON is Nigeria’s main counselling association. Its membership tiers, the CCN and LPCN credentials, how to register, and how it links to CPCN registration.

From 1959 career talks in Ibadan to CASSON, university departments and a 2022 Act: how guidance and counselling grew in Nigeria, and where it stands now.

Guidance helps you make choices; counselling helps you work through problems. What each means, how they differ, the types of guidance and its Nigerian roots.

Counsellor, clinical psychologist, social worker or psychiatrist: the degrees, supervised practice and registration each route needs in Nigeria, explained.

What 116 Nigerian therapists charge per session, and how to set your own fee: your cost floor, fair benchmarks, couples and student rates, and raising fees.

Counsellors now register with a statutory council, psychiatrists with the MDCN and psychologists with associations. Each path in Nigeria, plus CPD.

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