About Us
Where Conversations Lead to Clarity, Healing, and Stronger Relationships
Why This Practice Exists
Most people in Lagos do not grow up being taught how to handle a difficult conversation. We learn to endure, to keep the peace, to manage. What we rarely learn is how to say what we actually mean, or what to do when someone we love disappoints us.
Shelistens Therapy and Consulting exists to fill that gap. We are a relationship and emotional wellbeing practice, working with people in person in Lagos and online across Nigeria and abroad.
How We Work
This is talk therapy, focused on relationships, communication, boundaries, conflict and emotional regulation. It is practical work. You should leave a session with something you can actually use, not just something you understood.
We do not work in single sessions. One conversation brings relief, but patterns take more than that to shift, so sessions are structured as a short programme with a clear direction and a clear end point.
Where someone needs care that sits outside our scope, we say so and connect them to the right professional. That conversation happens inside the session, not instead of it. Nobody is turned away at the door.
Who We Work With
Individuals looking for clarity about themselves and their relationships. Couples wanting to communicate without it ending in conflict. Engaged couples preparing properly for marriage rather than only for a wedding. Organisations building teams that can handle pressure without breaking the people in them.
Beyond the Therapy Room
Alongside private practice, Shelistens delivers emotional intelligence and wellbeing training inside organisations, and speaks publicly on relationships, communication and emotional health at conferences and events across Lagos.
We also run DEIL, an annual summer programme teaching young people aged ten to sixteen the emotional skills most of us had to learn the hard way.
Oluwadamilola Mayowa Eric-Ojo
Oluwadamilola Mayowa Eric-Ojo is a relationship and emotional therapist with over eight years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through meaningful change. Her work is grounded in helping people understand themselves better, communicate more effectively, and navigate relationships with clarity and emotional awareness.
She specialises in individual therapy and self-discovery, couple therapy, premarital counselling, and consulting services that include coaching, workshops, and speaking engagements. Oluwadamilola’s approach focuses strongly on communication patterns, emotional regulation, conflict resolution, and the unspoken dynamics that shape relationships and decision-making.
Through her work, she has supported clients in gaining clarity around personal boundaries, strengthening emotional intelligence, improving relationship satisfaction, and making aligned life and relationship choices. Her sessions are structured, compassionate, and practical, designed to help clients move beyond surface conversations into deeper understanding and sustainable growth.
In addition to adult therapy and counselling, Oluwadamilola leads the DEIL Programme, a structured emotional learning and resilience initiative designed for tweens and teenagers, supporting early emotional development, self-awareness, and healthy communication skills. She also facilitates webinars and workshops focused on relationships, emotional well-being, and personal development.
Oluwadamilola is committed to creating a safe, non-judgmental space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to build stronger relationships and a more grounded sense of self.