Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Gently untangling the thoughts that keep the stress spinning, and building steadier ones in their place.
Mental health · Lagos, Nigeria
Take the stress off.
Terapo is a Nigerian mental-health initiative that helps people carry less — working through depression, anxiety and everyday stress with therapy, music, movement and calm.
Breathe with us — in … and out.
Who we are
A softer place to set the weight down.
Life in Lagos rarely slows down, and stress has a way of building quietly until it costs us our health, our work and our peace.
Terapo is a supportive, adjustive initiative — a small team using several gentle, evidence-based methods together to help people manage depression, anxiety and stress. Some of our work is one-to-one; much of it happens in group Stress Off Sessions and in talks we bring to schools, offices and public institutions across Lagos.
Care here is meant to feel human, unhurried and within reach — not clinical and not out of price.
Our approach
Five ways in.
Stress doesn’t come at us from one direction, so we don’t meet it from one either. We combine five methods, matched to the person in front of us.
Motion Imagery
Guided mental imagery and movement to loosen the tension the body has quietly been holding.
Live Scenery
Time spent in calm, real surroundings — nature and open space used as part of the therapy itself.
Music Therapy
Sound and rhythm used to settle the nervous system, lift low moods and make room to breathe.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Reworking the language we use with ourselves, to change how we feel and how we respond under pressure.
Not sure where to start?
That’s completely normal. Reach out and we’ll help you find the way in that fits you best.
Reach outThe signature programme
The Stress Off Session.
Our regular group session — a scheduled pause to breathe, reset and put the weight down for a while, together. We also bring it to workplaces, schools and public institutions on request.
Book or host a sessionWe can’t exhaust our duties and responsibilities in life — but the duties and responsibilities can exhaust us. To do our best, we have to consciously and regularly take a day off, to take the stress off.
News & sessions
Out in the community.
24 Mar 2021
Mental-health talk for the Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos!
Terapo delivered a session — “Mental Stress and its Damaging Process” — to the FRSC Lagos State Sector Command, Ojodu, exploring how unmanaged stress builds and what teams can do about it.
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Get involved
There’s a place for you here.
Join the team
We’re always looking for counsellors, facilitators and volunteers who care about mental health in Nigeria. If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you.
Get in touchSupport our work
Our sessions and community talks are kept free or low-cost, on purpose. A small gift helps us keep the lights on and reach more people who need a place to set the weight down.
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