From Coaching to Counselling: Why I’m Deepening My Work in Human Healing
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1 in 3 young people are experiencing severe mental health struggles.
Not tired.
Not stressed.
Not “just adjusting.”
Severe.
If that doesn’t alarm us, something is seriously wrong with what we’ve normalized.
We live in a world where:
• Teenagers are breaking down under pressure before their lives have even begun
• Young adults are terrified to fail because they believe failure equals being unworthy
• And “I’m fine” has become a survival mask worn daily
And we’re still telling people to “be strong” and “push through.”
This is not resilience.
This is collapse disguised as coping.
And here’s the uncomfortable truth:
This doesn’t start in youth. It starts in the environments we create.
At home.
At school.
At work.
In leadership.
In culture.
In silence.
It starts when emotions are dismissed.
When vulnerability is labelled weakness.
When success is valued more than mental safety.
When we teach people to perform, not to feel.
This is one of the reasons why I am completing my Postgraduate Degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling at the @school of positive psychology.
Because coaching alone is not enough for the scale of emotional pain I am seeing.
Because I’m done watching people suffer quietly behind polished lives and professional masks.
Because we are losing good people — high performers, youth, parents, executives — to silent internal battles no one is trained to recognise.
I’ve sat with leaders who broke only when the door closed.
I’ve spoken with teens who say they have no one they can be real with.
I’ve seen families who don’t know how to talk to each other anymore.
We don’t need more motivational speeches.
We need safety.
We need connection.
We need people who know how to actually listen.
If 1 in 3 are reaching crisis levels, the solution is not to tell them to “cope better.”
The solution is to change the environments that made suffering normal.
This is why I do the work I do.
And why I’ll keep doing it.
Wake up.
This is not someone else’s problem.
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