A Day in the Life of....An Online Counsellor

Emma Pearson is a counsellor for Kooth, which offers online and face-to-face support for young people.

Find out more about her role on a day to day basis here:-
http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2014/may/16/day-in-life-online-counsellor

"You Keep Me Believing" - Sam Ross

A young person's self belief....... How can we help them have a sense of worth if they live with little or no affirmations from family or friends?

 

Sam Ross of "The Teenage Whisperer" discusses this further.....

Our job, while it may be to re-educate, to offer perspective, to change behaviour, to prompt a rethink in the minds of young people, or to provide advice or support, can’t successfully be any of these things unless the underlying message or mission is to build them up. To help them believe that they are capable of thinking differently, of doing life differently, that no matter how hard their life circumstances may have been or still be, that they can overcome. - See more at: http://www.teenagewhisperer.co.uk/self-belief-self-worth-low-self-esteem-hope-troubled-teens/#sthash.meNrXaPL.dpuf

http://www.teenagewhisperer.co.uk/self-belief-self-worth-low-self-esteem-hope-troubled-teens/

Our job, while it may be to re-educate, to offer perspective, to change behaviour, to prompt a rethink in the minds of young people, or to provide advice or support, can’t successfully be any of these things unless the underlying message or mission is to build them up. To help them believe that they are capable of thinking differently, of doing life differently, that no matter how hard their life circumstances may have been or still be, that they can overcome. - See more at: http://www.teenagewhisperer.co.uk/self-belief-self-worth-low-self-esteem-hope-troubled-teens/#sthash.meNrXaPL.dpuf

Our job, while it may be to re-educate, to offer perspective, to change behaviour, to prompt a rethink in the minds of young people, or to provide advice or support, can’t successfully be any of these things unless the underlying message or mission is to build them up. To help them believe that they are capable of thinking differently, of doing life differently, that no matter how hard their life circumstances may have been or still be, that they can overcome. - See more at: http://www.teenagewhisperer.co.uk/self-belief-self-worth-low-self-esteem-hope-troubled-teens/#sthash.meNrXaPL.dpuf