Our Peer support sessions are designed to improve our members’ wellbeing and lifestyle offering a safe, non‑judgmental space to talk openly with someone who ‘gets it’ and takes your individual needs into account.
Our 1:1 support can be tailored to make positive changes to improve your lifestyle. You are accepting help from someone who has lived experience in many aspects of the daily struggles we face and from a peer perspective.
So what can we help with and what is peer support?
We can assist with what we can and what we know. Peer support is when peeps with similar or almost identical life experiences help each other through sharing knowledge, signposting, showing empathy and understanding, sharing experiences and putting together an action plan to build skills for self-management to empower peers to make positive and life-changing improvements to improve their lifestyle and wellbeing. This service is a safe space for you to talk, heal and grow.
What can our 1:1 Peer support sessions cover?
- Goal setting at a pace comfortable for you
- Navigating challenges and identifying opportunities to remove barriers whether this is in the workplace or your present lifestyle
- Coping strategies and healthier lifestyle habits
- Exploring opportunities and providing guidance suited to you for your self-development
- Putting together an action plan and signpost you to services to improve your lifestyle
- Networking. Connecting you with appropriate services
Not only is our priority to provide you with the best service catered to your individual needs, our WEB (Wellness, Empowerment and Belonging) values are at the heart of what we do.
We want our sessions to leave your wellness boosted, we want you to feel empowered to achieve your goals whilst being your authentic self, and we want to boost your confidence, reclaim your voice and feel like you belong in this world like everyone else.
What we are
- Peers with lived experience in workplace discrimination, abuse, recovery, coming to grips with my mental health, isolation and loneliness, accepting who we are.
- Peers with knowledge and experience supporting others in many environments such as Probation, Recovery services, Homelessness.
- A service with awareness and understanding knowing that one service does not fit all
- Peers with adaptable and flexible approaches tailored to suit each user
What we are not
- Qualified to diagnose
- Qualified counsellors
- Medical professionals
- A substitute to professionals – Professional AND Peer support are both important. That’s why we are here.
- Authoritative or hierarchical. We work with people, not above people
Funding
If the support you require is specific to starting, staying, and progress in work this can be funded through Access to Work and we will make the support specialist for this reason.
This would first need to be awarded the funding by Access to Work and we would need proof of your award before we provide the support through this scheme. Please click here to find out more and apply for the funding.