Some young people don’t respond to traditional mentoring. They shut down, withdraw, overthink, and they feel everything whilst moving through this world with a perceptual depth nobody realises or can name. These young people tend to lose themselves trying to fit into a system that doesn’t understand them.

They don’t need discipline, motivation, or generic “support“; rather they need someone who understands their identity, behaviour, nervous system, culture, and environment as one system.

That is the work I do.

MY APPROACH

I use a neuroscience-informed, identity-led, perceptual approach that draws on sensory and emotional awareness, identity formation, behavioural patterns, cross-cultural experience and social context, neurology, rhythm, movement, voice, and belonging.

I help young people understand who they are, how their brain works, and why they respond to the world the way they do.

I teach them to read their own patterns so they don’t get lost in someone else’s. Why me? Please see my About page to know more about my background and credentials.

WHO THIS IS FOR

I work with young people who are:

  • perceptive, sensitive or easily overwhelmed
  • mixed heritage or navigating multiple cultures
  • struggling with confidence or belonging
  • withdrawn, muted or disconnected
  • high potential but unengaged
  • carrying unspoken emotional or identity load
  • neurodiverging in ways that don’t fit standard categories
  • masking or performing to survive
  • unsure how to process their own depth
  • academically strong but socially lost
  • behaviourally flat, avoidant or “shut down”
  • misunderstood by teachers or peers

I specialise in mentoring young people whose inner world is complex, fast, or unusually layered.

WHAT WE COVER

Every young person is different, but mentoring often includes:

Identity: who they are And where they come from, and how to build a stable sense of self.

Perception: how their brain reads threat, and how they process people.

Emotion & Regulation: understanding overwhelm, and stabilising their nervous system.

Behaviour: interpreting their own responses, and recognising patterns.

Belonging: place, culture, race, heritage and environment; how to navigate multiple identities; and how to hold their depth without shrinking.

Confidence and Direction: values, who they want to be, interests, and ambitions.

HOW I WORK

Mentoring is:

  • 1:1 (small groups can be negotiated at a reduced price per child)
  • in the family home
  • structured but responsive
  • neuroscience-informed but non-clinical
  • designed for young people who don’t fit template categories

Sessions are 60 minutes.
Parents receive a short debrief after each session if appropriate.

This is not tutoring or therapy but rather Identity Systems mentoring.

THE MENTORING PROGRAMME

14-Week Programme

Delivered once a week over 14 weeks (or 28 weeks if preferred).

Includes sessions on perception, the nervous systems, identity, culture and belonging, direction mapping, identity alignment, confidence and self-expression, and personalised guidance.

This structure adapts to each young person.

WHY PARENTS CHOOSE THIS

Because their children:

  • think differently
  • feel more deeply
  • struggle to “switch off”
  • mask or hide too well
  • are hard to reach
  • are perceptive but lost
  • are bright but overwhelmed
  • sense everything but explain nothing
  • feel misplaced in school, culture or peer groups
  • carry mixed-heritage or cross-cultural identity weight
  • have an internal world no one has been able to translate

We work together to translate that world and help them translate it for themselves.

This mentoring is for children who fall between categories, who don’t respond to standard approaches, and who need someone who can meet them where they truly are.

FEES

The programme is priced at a premium level due to its depth, complexity and the personal nature of the work.

14-Week Identity Mentoring Programme
£2,400 per young person
(1:1, in person), or reduced for small groups. Longer-term mentoring is available on request.

NEXT STEPS

If you’d like to discuss whether this mentoring is right for your child, email:
tellme@theTawia.com