Emotional Resilience Mentoring
​EmRes (Emotional Resilience) mentors are all qualified counsellors with extra training in delivering specialist mentoring and support to people who have made an attempt in their lives.
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The mentor works with you one to one, by telephone, video call, or in person, depending on your needs and your availability.
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The mentor normally works with you for an hour, once a week for up to 12 sessions of Emotional Resilience (EmRes) Mentoring. ​You might only need 1 or 2 sessions, or you might need all 12, depending on what works best for you.
EmRes Mentoring provides you with focussed support, tailored around your needs and your own identified difficulties. ​
Mentoring helps you by re-building your ability to overcome what life throws at you, and help you to identify the issues leading up to you attempting suicide, as well as the immediate triggers which ‘pushed you over the edge of despair’. ​
The mentor will help you to find the things within yourself, and within your life, which make things better AND worse for you, and help you develop plans and ways of surviving these. More than this, they will help you see that you are good enough and you deserve better, even when life feels overwhelming and awful. ​
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It is important that you trust the mentor in order to support you in developing your coping mechanisms and putting a safety plan in place for times you feel suicidal in future.
​The EmRes Mentoring programme has been designed by the IMP;ACT Team – tailored around the needs of each person we work with.
For example the mentor can access appropriate, tailored resources on conversation skills or social isolation to guide you to improve these if that is a difficulty in your life. ​
Your IMP;ACT Mentor will feedback to your IMP;ACT coordinator so that they work together to find the best way they can support you. The Mentor will only share information that can help the coordinator build an action, safety and life plan to help you manage your emotions, relationships and any obstacles you might be encountering in your life.