Peer Mentoring pairs you with a Peer Support Practitioner (PSP) to help you explore your goals and challenges. A PSP is someone with lived experience of neurodivergence—either personally, as a parent/carer, or both. Your Peer Support Practitioner will:
If you or your child are newly diagnosed or identified as neurodivergent, it can come with a range of intense emotions, or you may not know how you feel about it. You may also feel you don’t fully understand what being neurodivergent means for you, and what to do next.
Peer Mentoring provides a space to process how you are feeling, to explore your individual strengths and challenges, and to think about next steps.
Being a neurodivergent parent can bring its own set of challenges, as you try to balance your own self-care with the needs of your child, as well as keeping on top of all the organisational aspects of parenting.
Our Peer Support Practitioners have been there themselves and can provide a safe space to explore these challenges without fear of judgement.
Peer Mentoring is not limited to the scenarios described above; if you are experiencing burnout, are facing challenges in the workplace, need support to maintain healthy relationships, or simply want to understand yourself better, please complete our enquiry form and a member of the team can provide you with further information.
Parenting a neurodivergent young person comes with many challenges as you try to navigate a system that was not designed for them.
Our Peer Support Practitioners understand the things you want to celebrate as a parent but also the things that can be extremely difficult. They can provide emotional support as well as sharing insights into things they found helpful in their own journeys.
Peer Mentoring can also help you to develop your advocacy skills to try and positively influence the systems around your child.