KCN offers a free Peer Support service to support unpaid carers with Diana.

Peer support workers are people with lived experience of mental health that are using their journey and experiences to empower people and show them that there is hope when times are hard.

KCN offers six to eight, weekly one to one sessions lasting up to one hour to help you identify coping strategies and support you to set goals for your wellbeing. Sessions can be over the phone or face to face at the KCN office.

We offer a non-judgemental space to reflect together and focus on the present and how we can identify and use our individual strengths to change the things that can be changed.

We will work together to help ease the pressure you are facing by listening to what you are going through.

We will look into your wellbeing and find out what you could do to look after yourself and what you would find helpful including looking at the range of activities on offer from KCN. The Peer Support Worker will be able to signpost you to various other resources in the borough, online or in person.

We will use plain, normal language and no assessments that you need to do for each week, we will just explore together things you can do that will help you to feel more able to self-manage challenges.

We will also look into what other help is out there that you could benefit from. We do require you to engage with the sessions and give enough notice if you cannot make some of them.

Please note a Peer Support Worker is not a medically qualified professional, and peer support is not counselling or psychotherapy.

In order be referred to the Peer Support Service you will have to speak to your GP or mental health professional and they will action a referral for you.