1:1 mentoring is a personalised, weekly session where your child has a safe space to talk, think, and grow. We focus on building confidence, improving communication, strengthening relationships, and creating clarity around their future. They'll be given tasks to do between sessions to implement what we've discussed during our session.

Each session is conversational, not clinical. Sessions feel safe and as though they're talking with a mate who gets it. Someone they can relate to. We’ll either work on a specific goal (e.g. confidence, friendships, motivation) or something currently happening in their life. Your child will leave each session with simple, practical steps they can apply straight away. 

Every young person is different, but common outcomes include:

- Increased confidence and self-belief

- Better communication at home and socially

- More clarity around direction and goals

- Improved motivation and follow-through

- Stronger sense of identity and responsibility

Mentoring is future-focused and action-based.

While therapy often focuses on healing the past, mentoring focuses on helping your child move forward; building confidence, skills, and direction in real time. If I ever feel your child needs additional support, I’ll always guide you appropriately. 

Quite often, parents and mentees have told me that some tasks and comments I make are ones that they've heard from therapists. So why mentoring? Because those people didn't like the clinical setting, and needed something a little more casual or reciprocal. I connect with everyone - both the parents and their children because they're not just clients or patients, I treat them like family

If your child is capable but struggling with confidence, motivation, or direction - mentoring can be a great fit.

The best way to know is through a short call where we can understand your situation.

I’m a trained school teacher with over 10 years of experience working with young people both in the classroom and out, alongside extensive mentoring experience in different charities and organisations over the years. I’ve worked with a wide range of students and understand how to connect with them in a way that actually lands. I've completed youth mentor training with different organisations and hold certificate of youth mental health first aid