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About Talk Space

We didn't name ourselves. Our clients did

It didn’t start with a logo, a website, or a business plan.

It started long before we had a name for it. In those early years, Tunbi was working in human resources.

On paper, her job was policies, leave forms, and appraisals. In reality, people brought her their whole lives — overwhelmed worklife, strained marriages, grief, anxiety, and burnout while they still had to smile through the day.

She had a gift for making people feel seen, heard, and creating small pocket of safety in the middle of a busy workday, where someone could finally breathe out and say, “I’m not okay.” She carried those moments home — not the names, never the gossip, just the weight of what people were going through.

So night after night, we — Tòsín and Tunbi — stayed up talking. Same pattern: different faces, same ache.

In our culture, strength is praised and resilience is expected. We're taught to endure, to keep going, to smile in public, and say "I'm fine" even when we're not.

The problem was never that people has nothing to say. It was that many had nowhere to say it — no place to take off the mask without fear of shame, gossip, or dismissal.

So we created a space — a chair, a quiet corner, someone willing to listen, and a promise that you could talk about anything here. Even if you don't it figured out, just walk in.

Talk Space founders
Our Values

Four commitments we hold every session.

100% Confidentiality

Privacy first. What is said at Talk Space stays at Talk Space.

Culturally grounded

Therapists who understand family, faith, work and community in Nigeria.

Care over cure

We meet you where you are, no jargon, no rush, no judgement.

Evidence-based

CBT, ACT, EMDR, systemic and relational modalities, chosen for you.

Talk Space therapist seated in a counselling room

Talk Space — made for anywhere you are

What began as our late-night conversations slowly became a calling. That calling became a practice and that practice grew into a community built on one belief: people heal better when they have a safe place to be heard.

For a while, we operated under a different name. It was professional, and it described what we did, but it didn't capture how it felt to be here.

Then one client changed everything.

She found us through a friend, who had found us through another client. Three different women, different lives, different stories, connected by one sentence: "Go to them. They will hear you."

Midway through her own healing, after a real shift in her life, She looked at Tunbi and said "Your name outside doesn't match what you actually give. You don't just offer a service. "You are a true Talk Space.

In that moment, we stopped being what we called ourselves and became what our clients called us.

Talk Space.

We are the room where the mask comes off. A space to talk. To be heard. To make sense of what hurts. To process, to heal, to reconnect, to become.

Not because you are weak, but because you have been strong for too long.

Whether you meet us in Abuja, Lagos, or virtually from your private space, our promisee is the same.

If you are considering therapy for the first time, you are welcome here. The first conversation is often the hardest, and the most important.

Your healing starts with one conversation

Book a confidential session with a licensed Nigerian therapist, online or in person.