Working on the psychological level, a good mentor helps the adolescent (or adult) to explore such themes as:

• What remains unfinished from childhood development?
• How does this create vulnerability to certain kinds of behaviors?
• In what ways does the adolescent get stuck?
• What are the adolescent's deepest values and beliefs?
• How might it be possible to manifest these?
• What is important to remember?
• What must be learned, un-learned, or re-learned?
• What is the adolescent good at?
• What are they so good at that it works against them?
• Where are they going?
• Who are they?