When should I choose Supported Self Help?

Supported Self-Help is ideal for adults and young people 11+ who want to take an active role in managing their mental wellbeing with guidance from a trained professional. It’s best suited to people who are motivated to learn practical strategies and apply them in their daily lives, while still having structured support and encouragement along the way.

You might choose Supported Self-Help if you are:

  • Looking for practical tools to manage stress, low mood, or anxiety

  • Struggling with work-related pressure, burnout, or feeling stuck

  • Coping with life changes or challenging experiences

  • Wanting to build emotional resilience and confidence

  • Interested in a short, structured programme that supports independence

Supported Self-Help can help you develop skills to cope with challenges, gain insight, and feel more in control, while building confidence to continue using these strategies beyond the sessions.

Choose the pathway that suits you

Supported Self-Help offers structured programmes tailored to a range of specific challenges. You can select the pathway that best matches your current needs, allowing your practitioner to guide you with tools and strategies that are relevant to you.

Available pathways include:

  • Anxiety & panic attacks

  • Stress

  • Depression

  • Low self-esteem

  • Loneliness

  • Grief & loss

  • Anger

  • Menopause

Each pathway is designed to help you understand your patterns, build coping strategies, and gain confidence in managing your wellbeing, while working within a flexible, structured programme.

Supported Self Help at Rise

Supported Self-Help is designed to empower you to understand and manage your own wellbeing. Unlike traditional one-to-one therapy, which focuses on exploring emotions and experiences in depth, this programme is skills and insight-focused. It provides guidance, practical tools, and structured activities to help you recognise patterns of distress, learn strategies to cope, and build confidence in managing challenges independently.

Your practitioner provides a supportive, non-judgemental space to introduce techniques, review progress, and encourage reflection, but the emphasis is on learning and practicing skills rather than long-term discussion of feelings. This makes Supported Self-Help ideal for people who want a guided, structured approach to improving wellbeing without committing to extended therapy sessions.

This short and unique programme lasts for 5 weekly sessions of 30 minutes each, making it accessible for people want support during work lunch breaks or work irregular hours and is very suited to being deliver in phone sessions, meaning no travel is required. All of our practitioners are trained to deliver this programme.

Key benefits:

  • Practical, skills-focused support: learn strategies to manage stress, low mood, or anxiety and apply them in everyday life.

  • Build confidence and independence: gain insight into your own patterns of distress and develop confidence in managing your wellbeing.

  • Flexible delivery: sessions are delivered via phone or online meeting

  • Short, structured programme: sessions last for 5 weeks, 30 minute weekly sessions

  • Professional guidance: delivered by trained, qualified practitioners in a supportive, non-judgemental space.

What to expect

Starting therapy can feel daunting, but at Rise we’re here to make it simple, supportive, and easy to understand. Read on to see what you can expect.

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