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Shared lived experience
Peer support for male survivors is person-centred and underpinned by strength-based philosophies. The life experience of the peer-support-worker creates common ground from which the trust relationship with the person is formed.
Your peer supporter has a shared lived experience of child abuse, sexual abuse or other trauma. Each person's experience of abuse, trauma and recovery is unique but you will have walked a similar path.
Empowerment, empathy, hope and choice along with mutuality are the main drivers in peer support work. There is a great deal of strength gained from knowing someone who has walked where you are walking and now has a life of their choosing.
What do we help with?
We are specialists in working a variety of issues. You will find a Peer Support worker or Counsellor trained in Trauma Intervention who can provide support for:
Are peer workers trained ?
All Peer Support Workers are fully trained and Certified. Training includes our own certified Trauma Intervention training and IPS ( Intentional Peer Support ) training courses.
Join a group here
Click HERE to learn more about how you can meet a Peer Support Worker and maybe join a Peer Support Group and what the process would be like.
Your peer supporter has a shared lived experience of child abuse, sexual abuse or other trauma. Each person's experience of abuse, trauma and recovery is unique but you will have walked a similar path.
Empowerment, empathy, hope and choice along with mutuality are the main drivers in peer support work. There is a great deal of strength gained from knowing someone who has walked where you are walking and now has a life of their choosing.
What do we help with?
We are specialists in working a variety of issues. You will find a Peer Support worker or Counsellor trained in Trauma Intervention who can provide support for:
- Child Abuse
- Sexual Abuse
- Emotional Abuse and Neglect
- Anger Management and Emotional Integrity
- Family or Intimate Partner Violence, victim or perpetrator
- Physical Abuse
- Narcissistic Abuse
- Support for Partners, Parents, Whanau and Family trying to help their loved ones.
Are peer workers trained ?
All Peer Support Workers are fully trained and Certified. Training includes our own certified Trauma Intervention training and IPS ( Intentional Peer Support ) training courses.
Join a group here
Click HERE to learn more about how you can meet a Peer Support Worker and maybe join a Peer Support Group and what the process would be like.
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