Overview
Please note that Peer Staff Supporters & Coaches are not mental health professionals. If you require professional help, please reach out to the Health and Wellbeing Team for a session with a Wellbeing Specialist Partner (trained clinical psychologists) or call 800 852 6317 to speak to a counsellor from NUS Heart (EAP Provider) (available 24/7).
Life Coaches
Life coaching is a partnership where a trained-coach helps clients identify goals, overcome obstacles, and create actionable plans to achieve them.
Unlike therapy, which focuses on past issues, life coaching is future-oriented and supports the person in a variety of areas like personal growth, career, and relationships. The process involves a coach providing accountability, motivation, and support to empower the client to find their own solutions and create the life they desire.
The Department of Physiology has in-house faculty trained as life coaches who you can contact (see below).
Take this opportunity to discuss challenges and struggles that you have – and may not be comfortable sharing with your co-workers.
All conversations are strictly confidential unless disclosure is required. Confidentiality is fundamental to the coaching relationship, and your information will be handled with the utmost care.
Herbert Schwarz
Peer Staff Supporters
- In need of a listening ear?
- Wanting to connect or re-connect?
- Feeling stressed or overwhelmed?
- Feeling alone/isolated?
- Can’t get along with your team?
- Can’t stop worrying or feeling anxious about work?
- Feeling down?
NUS Peer Staff Supporters are colleagues who have undergone training to be equipped with skills to befriend and support peers. They’ll be able to help provide you with a listening ear and help guide you to appropriate help and resources within campus. You may share whatever you feel comfortable sharing with your peer supporter. Know that whatever is shared with them will be kept confidential.
Do note that peer support is not equivalent to a counselling session. Should a counselling session be required, your peer supporter can direct you to the necessary resources.
For a complete list of peer staff supporters at NUS, click here
