What is Peer-Mentoring?

Peer-mentoring is a supportive relationship where someone with lived experience offers guidance, encouragement, and practical advice to someone facing similar challenges. A peer-mentor shares their own experiences, providing insight, emotional support, and a sense of understanding that comes from having faced similar struggles. Unlike traditional counselling, peer-mentoring is more about connecting with someone who truly “gets it” and can offer personal support from a place of empathy and shared experience.

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The Benefits of Peer-Mentoring

Engaging with a peer-mentor can provide many benefits, including:

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• A sense of connection - knowing you are not alone in your struggles can bring comfort and reduce feelings of isolation.

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• Practical advice - peer-mentors can offer practical tips and strategies that have worked for them, helping you navigate difficult situations.

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• Increased confidence - by talking with someone who has overcome similar challenges, you may feel more empowered to take steps towards your own recovery or personal growth.

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• Emotional support - peer-mentors offer a non-judgmental space where you can be open and honest about your feelings, without fear of criticism.​

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How We Offer Peer-Mentoring

 

Sessions are run as either online sessions, walk-and-talk or face-to-face (at therapy rooms, risk-assessed home visits or at neutral, safe spaces). Everything we provide is free or donation-based, ensuring that cost will never be a barrier to accessing support. The first 6 sessions are free or donation-based (whatever best suits you), before you will be offered an optional paid extension.

 

The optional paid extension gives you a "review" meeting between you, your therapist/peer-mentor and our Clinical Lead, to create bespoke care plan. The care plan is there to guide your journey over another block of 6 more sessions. The "review" and extra "block" of 6 more sessions can be secured by making a £50 donation. This option is explained in full during your first block of 6. It can also be optionally extended for as long as would be beneficial to you.

 

Also, we are firm believers of working in a multi-agency/multi-disciplinary way. So, other professionals/services involved in your care are more than welcome to be present at your "review" meeting, if you would like this.​​​

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We are an entirely non-profit Community Interest Company, so all of the payments for new "blocks" or general donations made go directly to the CIC to be used only for things like the renting of therapy rooms, marketing purposes and other expenses required to sustain the service and keep us running.