Mental health struggles can feel overwhelming, lonely and often times discouraging. The reality is that the majority of the population faces mental health challenges at some point during their lives. You do not have to face these feelings alone. Mentorship acts as a critical support to an individual coping with symptoms of a mental health diagnosis. Mentors work alongside an individual’s treatment team (therapist, psychiatrist, nutritionist Etc.) to reach their therapeutic goals, utilize healthy coping strategies and gain symptom relief. A mentor may help a client face and successfully move through anxiety provoking engagements, debilitating phobias, or taking contrary action to mood dependent behaviors. To do so, mentors will collaborate with the individual and their support system to execute an individualized self-care plan. Once this action plan is established, the mentor will support the client in follow through, structure and consistency. When necessary, mentors may also support their clients with medication management.
