Adebayo Oyeyemi Arinola
Compassionate Client Services/Social Work Manager whose work is focused on serving patients by listening to concerns and guiding patients in approaching behavioral, mental and emotional problems. She is Certified in Family Life Practice and Sex Therapist, a trained professional Mediator.
Her career began as a client services and treasury operations banker after earning a second-class degree in insurance from Lagos State University. Her journey into social work, counseling, and therapy was borne out of her quest to seek answers to life's questions. She holds a diploma in counseling (social work and family) from the Christian Levites University in Lagos; she is an alumni of the outstanding counselor diploma course of the Wallmark Behavioral Mental College; she holds a certified professional certification from the Institute of Family Engineering and Development Africa, which qualifies her as a certified family life practitioner. She has a meditation training certificate from the International Mediation Institute in Germany.
Her professional background includes both the public and private sectors. She has contributed to numerous campaigns for the edification of sexuality, the recovery from addiction, family counseling, sex and relationship coaching, therapy, and advisory work. She has facilitated sex and intimacy in marriage curricula in a variety of religious and non-religious groups. She is a pre- and post-marriage sexual counselor.
Arinola was the pioneer project coordinator and facilitator for the Solution Provider in Training (SPIT) Program of the Center for Sexual Education and Family Life in Lagos, Nigeria. The SPIT Program is an addiction recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration program focused on individuals with varying addictions like sex addiction, masturbation, homosexuality, and drugs. She is still working as a paid volunteer program facilitator today.
Arinola is a member of the Network of Family Life Practitioners and a member of the Nigerian Social Workers Association, and she currently serves as a volunteer mediator at the Citizens Mediation Center, which is an arm of the Lagos Ministry of Justice. She is also a volunteer student case officer at the Lagos State Correctional Center for Boys, Oregun, and a facilitator of the behavior change program, which is a joint project of the Shun Unemployment Foundation and the Clean Foundation. The project aims to mentor and facilitate behavioral change in Iju Grammar School students who have demonstrated concerning patterns such as drug abuse, sexual perversion, hooliganism, and other disruptive actions in society with a negative impact. At Lagos State University, Ojo, Arinola is now finishing up her master's degree in social work.