ACADEMIC MENTORING

STRIDE TOWARDS YOUR ACADEMIC POTENTIAL

Looking for academic mentoring services to help advance your academic career, transform your institutional provision, or just make the most out of your studies?

  • Whatever you’re looking to achieve in academia, Sonia’s Psychotherapy & Consultancy is uniquely placed to help you unlock your true academic potential.

  • You already have what it takes. Whether via a one-off session or structured support programme, I can help you understand the pathways in front of you so you can step forwards with confidence.
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ACADEMIC CLIENTS
Sonia’s Psychotherapy & Consultancy provides mentoring services for clients across the entire academic spectrum:
  • Academics: Strengthen your emotional resilience, achieve professional balance, and realise your true potential with intelligent, proven approaches that support your continuing professional development.

  • University leadership: Instil a culture of wellbeing across your policy and personnel. Develop strategies to remove barriers for academic / professional staff and students, providing the tools needed to promote progression in their courses and careers.

  • Students: Develop emotional coping strategies to help reduce stress, anxiety, and the weight of expectation. Gain confidence, develop your academic voice, and find healthy ways to navigate the hectic student lifestyle.

Whatever your place in academia, I’m here to help you think clearly about your mission and achieve your academic goals with care and consideration.

ACADEMIC EXPERTISE

My extensive academic leadership and teaching experience ensures your needs will be understood in context.

I have a proven track record in a host of related roles, including:

  • Head of School (Undergraduate)
  • Head of School (Health)
  • Head of Wellbeing, Disability & Inclusion
  • Course Leader (BSc Health Studies)
  • Senior Lecturer (Healthcare)

My solutions are tailored to create alignment across institutional policy and practice, as well as driving change in an equitable and health-conscious manner.

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Why choose Sonia’s Psychotherapy & Consultancy?

Combined expertise
Specially-configured services based on extensive mentoring and academic leadership experience.
Academic insight
Deep-level understanding of academic challenges, processes, and mindsets.
Collaborative approach
Develop bespoke strategies and practical steps to take your career to the next level
Solution-focussed
Constructive strategies to open your pathway to personal and professional transformation.

Academic Mentoring Services

Academic mentoring services are designed to fit around your busy schedule.
All sessions take place online, so you can login whenever and wherever works for you.

Online Mentoring for New Academics

Session duration: flex

Focus:

  • Establishing realistic expectations
  • Managing complex workloads and stress
  • Overcoming imposter syndrome
  • Developing inclusive curriculums
  • Understanding the ‘duty of care’ and responding to student needs
  • Optimising student attainment, continuation, and progression
Online Mentoring for Established Academics

Session duration: flex

Focus:

  • Taking your next career step with confidence
  • Adapting to changing industry pressures
  • Long-term coping strategies for stress
  • Establishing a CPD pathway
  • Developing more inclusive curriculums
  • Optimising student attainment, continuation, and progression
Online Mentoring for New / Aspirational Academic Managers

Session duration: flex

Focus:

  • Overcoming imposter syndrome
  • Developing effective mental health strategies and resources
  • Using data and reporting structures to respond to student needs
  • Promoting inclusive pedagogy
  • Managing mental health for you and your colleagues
  • Providing constructive mental health training
Online Mentoring for Academic Managers

Session duration: flex

Focus:

  • Auditing and optimising mental health services
  • Establishing links between student mental health and achievement metrics
  • Creating more agile responses to student and staff mental health requirements
  • Promoting more inclusive pedagogy
  • Managing mental health for you and your colleagues
  • Improving staff mental health training
Online Student Mentoring

Session duration: flex

Capabilities:

  • Establishing realistic expectations
  • Managing complex workloads and stress
  • Balancing academic, professional, and personal lives
  • Responding after an academic setback
  • Perceiving values, strengths, and self-worth
  • Recognising and utilising university support mechanisms
Book-in for an academic consultancy session and take your first step towards realising your academic potential.

Ready to get started? Contact us today for availability and a personalized quote!