What is Therapeutic Mentoring

Connected Self’s Therapeutic Mentoring Program involves highly skilled Youth Practitioners spending time with young people to help them achieve their goals.  Although we maintain a fundamental practice focus on resilience, wellbeing and personal growth, each program is tailored to best suit the young person, and their family, to allow them to get the most out of the service.  The young people that access our program often exhibit acting out behaviours, are disengaged from mainstream supports such as education, or are struggling to maintain functional relationships with the important people in their lives.  Whilst talking things through and engaging with a psychologist might be exactly what a young person needs, they’re often not ready to sit down in a clinical setting and open up to someone they see as a strange adult.  This is where a skilled Youth Practitioner comes into play, by first building a mentoring relationship that is based on fun.  While engaging young people in fun activities, Youth Practitioners receive practice guidance and support from one our highly trained Psychologists through a secondary-consult model.  This high level of practice supervision, debriefing and support, ensures each session is delivered with clear intent, with the young person’s wellbeing and personal goals as the focus.  The result is young people engaged in meaningful conversations within safe and positive relationships that are built through fun and playful shared activities.