An award-winning youth-led peer mental health service built on one belief: that the most powerful thing a struggling young person can receive is a conversation with someone their own age who has been where they are - and found a way through.
"At fourteen, I was bedridden. Three surgeries. A career-ending injury. The life I had built - dismantled overnight. What I found in that silence was not strength. It was the slow, unglamorous work of deciding to keep going. When I came back, I looked around at the young people beside me and realised that many of them were carrying something just as heavy. And carrying it completely alone. Not because no one cared. But because every person available to help them was someone with authority over them. And that gap - between needing help and being able to ask for it - was costing lives. I built I'm Possible to close it."
Every available helper is an adult with authority over them. That gap - between needing help and being able to ask for it - is structural, not personal.
A deliberate change to the social architecture of a school - placing trained, supervised, lived-experience peer mentors in the spaces where young people already are.
Young person to young person. No hierarchy. No authority. Young people disclose to peers what they will not disclose to adults.
Recovery becomes believable when someone your age has already walked through it. Abishek's story is the foundation I'm Possible was built on.
Not a session. Not an appointment. A conversation - unscripted, led by the young person, on their terms. Simply available. And available is everything.
I'm Possible has directly supported over 100 young people since its founding. Each one previously unable to speak - who found in a conversation the first space they felt safe enough to try.
From one school in Barnet to every school in the NLFT CAMHS catchment area. From a single conversation to a national model.
14 trained, NHS-supervised peer mentors - 2 per year group across Years 7-13 - launching at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, September 2026.
In DevelopmentA formal clinical partnership with the NHS mental health service supporting 323,000+ young people across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey.
In NegotiationA free, termly, student-led publication reaching young people who will never speak to an ambassador - and generating the survey data behind the annual Mental Health Manifesto.
Coming SoonA podcast for longer, honest conversations. Short-form content for students who haven't found us yet. Different doors into the same conversation.
Coming SoonWhether you need support, want to partner with us, or simply believe in what is being built here - we want to hear from you.
Carrying something you haven't said out loud? I'm Possible is peer-led, free, and built entirely around you.
Want to bring I'm Possible to your school? We actively support early adopter schools through setup. We want to hear from you.
Abishek is available for press, interviews, and speaking. He has spoken at the UN, the House of Lords, and on BBC News.