Mental Health and Wellbeing - Adults & Families
Key mental health and wellbeing support services, online information, advice and resources (apps, audios and videos), primarily for adults (age 19+), Includes essential support during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Support Services:
- Fairview Therapies - Counselling Services: counsellors here at Fairview Medical Centre supporting your mental health and wellbeing at low cost, private and confidential:
- Call: 07796 416354
- Website:https://www.fairviewmedicalcentre.co.uk/private-fees
- Mental Health Helplines: comprehensive list of mental health and wellbeing helplines, recommended by the NHS, supporting various conditions and age groups (adults and youth), Includes contact details/websites:
- Anxiety UK: information, advice, support, resources and therapy sessions to help cope with anxiety, health and wellbeing:
- Call: 03444 775 774
- Text Service: 07537 416 905
- Email: support@anxietyuk.org.uk
- Website (coronavirus): https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/blog/health-and-other-forms-of-anxiety-and-coronavirus/
- Website (main): https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/
- Cruse Bereavement Care: support services for managing brief, loss / bereavement:
- Family Lives: practical and emotional support for families (parents, children and teenagers), includes info, videos and community forum:
- Helpline: 0808 800 2222
- Email: askus@familylives.org.uk
- Website (main): https://www.familylives.org.uk/
- Website (coronavirus): https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/your-family/family-life/coping-practically-and-emotionally-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/
- Listening Place: helpline and supporting people who feel that life is no longer worth living (suicidal thoughts):
- Call: 020 3906 7676
- Email: administration@listeningplace.org.uk
- Website: https://listeningplace.org.uk/
- Mind: free information and practical advice to support your mental health and wellbeing, including crisis support:
- Call: 0800 731 2864 or 0300 123 3393 (National) or 020 8668 2210 (Croydon)
- Text 86463
- Email Croydon: admin@mindincroydon.org.uk Main: info@mind.org.uk
- Website (coronavirus): https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/coronavirus/coronavirus-and-your-wellbeing/
- Website (Croydon): https://www.mindincroydon.org.uk/
- Mind in Croydon - Mental Health Directory: comprehensive directory of mental health services within Croydon, supporting different conditions, people, ethnicity and backgrounds:
- Samaritans: 24 hour telephone support for people requiring emotional support:
- Call: 116 123 (FREE available 24 hours a day)
- Email: jo@samaritans.org
- Website (coronavirus): https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/support-and-information/if-you're-having-difficult-time/if-you're-worried-about-your-mental-health-during-coronavirus-outbreak/
- Website (main): https://www.samaritans.org/
- Shout: 24 hours crisis helpline for people requiring emotional and practical support during mental health and wellbeing:
- Text: 85258 "SHOUT" (if you are over 19 years old. A helpline advisor will CALL you BACK)
- Email: info@giveusashout.org
- Website: https://www.giveusashout.org/
Mental Health and Wellbeing Online Resources:
This section contains key online mental health and wellbeing resources:
- Information and Advice
- Apps, Audios and Courses
Information and Advice:
- NHS Every Mind Matters: free information, practical tips and apps to support your mental and physical wellbeing:
- NHS Live Well: advice, tips and tools to help you make the best choices about your health and wellbeing. Includes healthy eating, exercise, mental health, sleep, alcohol, smoking and sexual health:
- Website: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/
- Looking After Your Mental Health: free tips and advice for looking after your mental health. includes podcasts and videos:
- Website (coronavirus): https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/looking-after-your-mental-health-during-coronavirus-outbreak
- Website (main): https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/your-mental-health
- NHS Mindfulness: information and advice on mindfulness and how it could help manage your mental health and wellbeing:
- NHS Only You: free advice, information and videos on mental and physical wellbeing includes home exercise videos, recipes, dealing with smoking and alcohol:
- Website: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/
- Public Health Mental Health: guidance and practical tips on managing your mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus:
Apps, Audios and Courses:
- NHS Mental Health and Wellbeing Apps: useful apps recommended by the NHS which can help with your mental health and wellbeing:
- NHS Mental Wellbeing Audios: guided audios to help deal with a variety mental health and wellbeing aspects such as anxiety, sleep, low mood, depression and unhelpful thoughts:
- College of Medicine COVID-19-ID Support: evidence based research, advice, events and articles for supporting health and wellbeing, including social prescribing and during the Coronavirus:
- Website (coronavirus): https://collegeofmedicine.org.uk/covid19/
- Website (main): https://collegeofmedicine.org.uk/
- Science of Wellbeing: free Yale on-line course:
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