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Complex Emotional Needs

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Guideposts Complex Emotional Needs Coaching Service helps to offer more support for people with complex emotional needs that meet the criteria of personality disorder, prevent crisis and alleviate pressure on health and social care services and staff.

Benefits to commissioners

Guideposts CEN Coaching Service is a

key community support partner. 

  • Improves equal and timely service access
  • Holistic, individualised and trauma-informed
  • flexible, consistent, structured, longer-term support
  • cares for co-existing needs
  • inter-agency working

Guideposts CEN Coaching Service draws on an

integrative model of support, tailored to individual needs.

  • Evidence-based, psychologically informed coaching 
  • flexible movement between therapeutic modalities 
  • Goal-oriented, solution-focussed and strength-based 
  • Multi-disciplinary problem-solving 
  • Synchronises with wider care / treatment options. 

Guideposts CEN Coaching Service

actively involves people in their own care.

  • Collaborative client-coach relationship 
  • action planning and goal setting  
  • safety management and crisis planning 
  • regular progress updates using eg. Dialog. 

Guideposts CEN Coaching Service

reduces demands and pressure on other services.

  • Support from point of referral.  
  • pre-coaching support until coaching space becomes available. 
  • Monitoring risk throughout 
  • Crisis support available.  

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