Peer pressure counselling helps you handle outside influence. It is a type of guidance that helps individuals cope with the influence of friends, classmates, or colleagues, teaching them how to make their own healthy choices instead of just following others.

This is someone equal to you in age, status, ability, or experience. In general, a peer is simply someone at the same level as you in a certain context. For example:

• In school, your classmates are your peers.
• At work, your colleagues of the same rank are your peers.

This is the influence from people of your age group or social circle that pushes you to think, act, or behave in a certain way, whether positive or negative. Example: She started smoking because of peer pressure from her friends.

• Positive Peer Pressure - When friends or peers influence you to make good choices. Example: Studying harder because your friends value good grades.
• Negative Peer Pressure - When peers push you toward harmful or unhealthy behaviours. Example: Drinking alcohol or skipping school because others do it.
• Direct Peer Pressure - When someone openly tells, dares, or persuades you to do something. Example: A friend saying, “Try this cigarette, everyone else is doing it.”
• Indirect Peer Pressure - When you feel pressured just by observing what others are doing, even if they don’t tell you directly. Example: Feeling like you must dress a certain way to fit in.
• Spoken Peer Pressure - Verbal encouragement, teasing, or persuasion to do something. Example: “Don’t be boring, come with us to the party.”
• Unspoken Peer Pressure - The silent influence of group norms or behaviours. Example: Everyone in the group has the latest phone, so you feel you must get one too.

Negative peer pressure is when friends, classmates, or people in your circle influence you to make harmful, unhealthy, or risky choices that go against your values or well-being. Negative peer pressure can harm your health, self-image, and future. The following are effects of negative pressure that affect all age groups, but precarious among the pre-teens and teenagers.

• Stress and anxiety - constant worry about acceptance or rejection.
• Low self-esteem - feeling unworthy if you don’t fit in with peers.
• Poor academic performance - skipping school or losing focus on studies.
• Damaged relationships - conflicts with family, teachers, or true friends.
• Loss of individuality - copying others instead of making your own choices.
• Legal or health problems - breaking the law or suffering long-term health issues.

Risky behaviours- engaging in drug use, alcohol abuse, unsafe sex, or reckless activities.

Peer pressure counselling helps teenagers stand strong against bad influences. The following are some of the importance of bringing teenagers for counselling, to manage negative peer pressure or prevent the possibility of getting involved:

• Builds decision-making skills - encourages making independent, healthy choices.
• Encourages positive peer influence - guides them to follow good examples instead.
• Helps resist negative influence - teaches teens how to say “NO” to harmful behaviours.
• Boosts - self-confidence, strengthens self-esteem, so teens do not rely on others’ approval.
• Prevents risky behaviour - reduces chances of substance abuse, crime, or school dropouts.

• Encouraging positive peers - guides them to choose supportive, healthy friendships.
• Providing coping strategies - offers safe ways to handle stress, bullying, or rejection.
• Boosting self-esteem - empowers them to value themselves without needing peer approval.
• Teaching refusal skills - trains them on how to confidently say “NO” to negative influence.
• Awareness building - helps teens understand what peer pressure is and how it affects their choices.

Provides versatile counselling to our clients within the county and in the Global space at the Online/Virtual Center, which is open from 6.00 AM to Midnight every day of the week. This dynamic center allows our Global clients to equally access therapy services from their country of residence, and for the other clients that treasure privacy to equally access therapy on or out of camera. However, for those around Nairobi, the Capital City of Kenya, we have a Physical Office for you in Nairobi, Upper Hill- Kenya Medical Association (KAM) Center. The Physical Center is open from 7.00 AM to 7.00 PM to accommodate those of you who are working.

The cost for virtual and physical therapy is the same, and our client can interchange the model without any penalty.  The therapy session can be One-on-One, Joint/Couple, or Group therapy. We are a prepaid honest center, and once payment is made, it is reserved for a therapy session. It does not matter how long the client takes to be available; you cannot lose your money while in our system. Please take time and read our terms and conditions, to understand important parameters like session cancellation is done within 24 hours, and once payment is made for a therapy session, it cannot be refunded, but should be used for a therapy session only.

We have professional counsellors trained and licensed to provide all forms of therapy, but with expertise in burnout management therapy, and co-related issues like stress and occupational fatigue management therapy.  With their support, you will learn your cause for burnout, ways of managing the factors contributing to it, and skills to manage the factors, hence acquiring coping mechanisms. Your therapist will provide a safe space to catharsis (vent out); help you to develop coping strategies, reshape your thinking patterns, improve your relationship, performance, and address the issue at hand better.  Book a therapy session and find a mental wellness support and personal therapist to walk and guide you to manage that burnout, which is interfering with your life.  Do not share your story in the wrong places and with the wrong people; they do not care about you.  Come and Share with a Counsellor at our Center, At Share We Care.

You can use Call, SMS, or WhatsApp, using any of the two official lines provided below at the contact us. In case you miss us using one medium, especially the call, use SMS or WhatsApp Chat, and we will promptly respond. You can access our services through our official email, and the administrator will escalate your request to the client manager for action.