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PSICOMENTORE.ORG

"Become who you are." — Friedrich Nietzsche

Peer mentoring grounded in lived experience

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The Project

Converging paths

Psicomentore is a third way in mental health: experiential, participatory psychological mentoring. We believe in the power of diversity—not as a flaw, but as a unique particularity to recognise and develop.

We centre uniqueness, informed self-determination, and genuine privacy, using plain language. The aim is straightforward: less suffering, more possibility—at work, in relationships, in creativity.

We co-design pathways with those who live them, offering practical tools and decision-making support within an interdisciplinary network. Diagnoses are maps, not cages, and outcomes are measured against goals chosen by the individual. We commit to prudent innovation, radical transparency, and zero coercion.

Our principles

  • Self-determination: you choose your path
  • Radical privacy: you speak if and when you want
  • Zero coercion: no pressure
  • Co-design: we build together
  • Integrated care: Molecules, Meaning, Movement, Environment
  • Ethical seal: respect, discretion, clear boundaries

The UK Model

In the United Kingdom, Peer Support Workers are professionals integrated within the National Health Service (NHS) and salaried. They use their own lived experience to support others on their mental health journey, working alongside doctors and psychologists. They reduce hospital admissions and bring tangible hope.

In Italy this role is not yet recognised. We're starting anyway.

The Journey

Perception

"Something is wrong with the world. I feel it, even if I can't explain it. It's there, like a splinter in your mind." — Neo, The Matrix

There comes a moment when reality begins to crack. Everything seems to function—work, routines, relationships—yet something doesn't add up. It's as though a thin veil separates you from the world, an invisible fracture dividing what you live from what you feel.

It isn't madness, and it isn't always illness. It's the threshold of suffering: that point where pain stops being merely an inconvenience and becomes language.

The Search

"You're looking for him, Neo. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. But when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer." — Trinity, The Matrix

Many of us have been there. We've tried the known routes: psychotherapy, diagnoses, medication. Often useful paths, but not always sufficient. Because there comes a time when quieting the pain is no longer enough: you need to understand it.

We're not selling certainty. We're offering company. Someone who's crossed the same desert, navigated the same storm, and can tell you: yes, there is a way out. Not always quick, rarely easy—but real.

The Decision

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." — Morpheus, The Matrix

Here, there are no blue pills. Not because we're against medication or conventional therapies—quite the opposite. We've tried them. We've been saved by them. Some of us still rely on them daily.

But at a certain point you're faced with a question: do you want to keep managing the symptoms, or do you want to understand what you're living through?

That moment demands courage. Not the hero's kind, but the courage of those who finally stop pretending to be fine. The courage to ask for help.

The Journey

"Neo, sooner or later you're going to realise, just as I did, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." — Morpheus, The Matrix

When you finally say: "I'm in," something shifts. The journey isn't a race towards healing. It isn't a therapy with guaranteed results. It isn't a protocol you follow for six months and then you're "cured."

It's a path you walk. Slowly, at times falteringly. Through relapses and breakthroughs. With someone beside you who knows those turns in the road because they've walked them themselves.

We don't promise you recovery. We promise presence. We won't solve your life—but we'll help you navigate it with more clarity, less shame, fewer lies.

Becoming

"You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear. Doubt. Disbelief. Free your mind." — Morpheus, The Matrix

And then, slowly, you start recognising yourself. Not the person you were before falling ill. Not even the person you thought you should be. The person you already are, concealed beneath years of survival, labels, expectations.

That's the objective: to stop trying to be normal. To become yourself.

It doesn't mean everything sorts itself. It means you've stopped fighting against who you are. And in that acceptance—not resignation, but recognition—there's a dignity no diagnosis can take away.

Welcome to Psicomentore. Your path is unique, but you're no longer walking it alone.

Two Sides of the Same Coin

Who can become a mentor

Anyone with lived experience of psychological distress can join the project by aligning with the ethical guidelines. Today you receive support; tomorrow you might offer it yourself.

Who can receive support

Those seeking a companion, not a saviour. Those who've already tried other routes and now seek meaning, not merely relief.

What we are NOT

  • We don't replace therapy or medicine
  • We don't promise rapid cures
  • We don't use coercion
  • We don't profit

We are genuine presence, authentic paths, shared dignity.

The Manifesto

To you reading this, perhaps you've felt observed, judged, or excluded. You've been told you're fragile or different, and that this makes you less than others. But it isn't so: you are far more than a diagnosis or a stigma.

The suffering you've lived through doesn't diminish you—it shapes you. Within your anxieties, your shifts, your racing thoughts or your profound silences, there's a sensitivity that can become a resource. You're not a defect to be corrected: you're a person to be encountered.

Psicomentore exists for this: to offer you a companion who doesn't speak from above, but from alongside. Someone who has known pain and rebirth, who understands what it means to lose your way and find it again. Not a teacher, but an older sibling who walks with you.

We don't want to create a separate island: our space is within society, with all its complexity and limits. Psychological diversity isn't a wall, but a bridge. Together we can transform loneliness into community, stigma into dignity, fragility into shared strength.

Psicomentore isn't a marketplace: it's a philanthropic gesture, an act of mutual care. Here you won't find judgement, but listening. Not rigid rules, but living relationships. Not a label, but the possibility of discovering that your experience can become a resource for others too.

If you've recognised yourself in these words, welcome. The path is open.

Contact

Tel. +39 393 2089097
(voice calls only)

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.psicomentore.org

"If you want to arrive, you will arrive. The breadcrumbs are here."