1:1
Personal and professional support for navigating change
1:1 MENTORING & COGNITIVE BRIEF THERAPY
One-to-one support for individuals and professionals — a confidential space where you can reflect, reset, and gain clarity while navigating challenges in your personal life and work. This work is for you if you’re carrying questions that don’t have simple answers — about yourself, your direction, or how to keep going without losing what matters to you.
Mentoring & Professional Guidance
Flexible, consultation-style mentoring for shorter engagements. We can reflect on your personal and professional development, discuss practical strategies, and address challenges related to wellbeing, equality and discrimination, diversity and inclusion, and navigating complex work environments. Mentoring is not therapy, but a reflective and practical space for thinking, sense-making, and decision-making.
Cognitive Brief Therapy
Structured, goal-oriented, and time-limited (typically 5–20 sessions). Together, we focus on strengthening resilience, managing stress, exploring identity, improving relationships, and navigating life transitions. I combine cognitive methods with experiential practices such as mindfulness, compassion-focused techniques, and metacognitive exercises — all tailored to your situation. The work is focused, collaborative, and adapted to your situation — without requiring a diagnosis or long-term commitment.
Working together
I’m Aaro Horsma (he/they), an expert in wellbeing and equality, working with people in situations where life, work, or direction feels unclear.
I combine cognitive brief therapy, counselling, mentoring, and community-informed perspectives in a grounded, relational, and practical way. My work is shaped by long experience in social and health services, human rights, and community development — but in one-to-one work, the focus is always on you, your situation, and what matters now.
Working style
In sessions, I aim to create a courageous and attentive space where your voice guides the conversation. Together, we explore your life situation, clarify your needs and goals, and discover practical ways to strengthen your resources. Even small insights into how we relate to ourselves and others can open the path to meaningful change. The work is grounded in openness, trust, and genuine dialogue, and cognitive brief therapy methods are applied flexibly to meet your needs.
Driven by people and their stories, I focus on fostering meaningful connection, awareness, and strength to connect our experiences, emotions, and thoughts. Learning from your experiences, together we can discover what matters most and how to bring more purpose, courage, and wellbeing into your life. My motto is:
“We can change, and value most, the things that we can understand.”
The aim is not to fix you or push you forward, but to understand what is happening — and where change is actually possible. If you’re wondering whether this kind of support could be right for you, you’re welcome to get in touch without commitment.
