Mental Wellbeing Mentoring
Your pathway to greater mental wellbeing in middle & later-life
For women, mid-life is often a time when their mental wellbeing is easily undermined by the physical changes caused by perimenopause and menopause and the changes to our bodies and brains during this time.
However, additional demands and stresses of juggling challenging personal, family and work lives during these years can also undermine our mental wellbeing and resilience.
Regardless of the origins, this can result in real and lasting distress with important consequences that in some cases can determine the quality of our much later life and old age.
The good news is that it doesn’t have to be like this!
For women, middle and later life can bring unparalleled opportunities for the creation of new habits, personal growth and learning to enhance our mental wellbeing during these years.
Mental wellbeing mentoring is for women who are not in crisis, but who struggle to manage issues that undermine their ability to thrive. Women are active in the workplace for much longer than previous generations and poor mental wellbeing can undermine their future opportunities.
Based on recognised therapeutic principles, it brings practical solutions to enable you to identify your strengths as well as difficulties, develop the tools and strategies to achieve the outcomes you want in a safe, accepting, supportive and skilful relationship.
What can it help with?
Mental wellbeing can help you manage:
the impact of major life change on emotional wellbeing
anxiety and mood swings (see exceptions below)
memory lapses
brain fog & difficulties staying focused and on task
managing stress
overthinking and procrastination
low self-confidence and decision making
fixed or negative mindset
life-management & organisational skills
IMPORTANT NOTICE
You may not fully know at the start of our work what kind of support is best suited to your needs. This is because sometimes deeper issues merge as the work progresses.
If, during our mentoring work, it becomes apparent that there are underlying needs that are best suited to a therapeutic intervention (such as clinical depression, complex trauma, or acute anxiety), I have a duty of care to discuss this with you in a supportive way, and in such instances, we may pause our mentoring work so that you can seek appropriate counselling or medical support. It is not ethically appropriate to use mentoring as a "work-around" for therapy.