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Hildenborough & Tonbridge Medical Group
Mental Health
Mental Health Support
For immediate help
Call 999 or go to A&E now if:
- someone's life is at risk - for example, they have seriously injured themselves or taken an overdose
- you do not feel you can keep yourself or someone else safe
Call: 999
Get advice from 111 or ask for an urgent GP appointment if:
- you need urgent help for your mental health
Get help from 111 online or call 111 and select the mental health option.
For same or next day help
You can get help with your mental health in different ways depending on what you prefer. All services are free.
- Get help from 111 online or call NHS 111 and select the mental health option. You can also go to the Tunbridge Wells Safe Haven without an appointment
- Between 5pm and midnight, the suicide prevention charity, CALM, provides telephone support
For non-emergency mental health problems
- Please consider self-referring for free NHS talking therapies
- West Kent MIND have lots of resources for people with mental health difficulties which include fast track counselling and affordable counselling
- Mental health support by online chat is provided for free by signing up to Qwell
- The Samaritans provide 24/7 telephone mental health support on 116 123
- You can also get free mental health support by texting SHOUT to 85258
Local Support
NHS Kent and Medway Talking Therapies
NHS Kent and Medway Talking Therapies is a free and confidential support service. They provide a range of support to help you to improve your mood and find ways to manage.
This includes a range of evidence-based talking therapies with new ways of coping, tools and resources to help you manage your mood.
Release the pressue
Kent School Health referral
Refer into the school health service for emotional wellbeing support
Kent Resilience Hub
Supporting young people to cope better with the pressures of everyday life
By providing a range of free and confidential talking therapies, face to face, over the phone and online, on behalf of the NHS. Contact Talking Therapies to find out how they can help you.
Mood Spark
Mood spark is a space created by young people for young people to help navigate and learn about emotions.
Reachout Youth
Reachout Youth is a free service offering cafe-style sessions & wellbeing support to young people, aged 13-19, in Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge.
Kent and Medway Safe Havens
The Safe Havens offer drop-in support to adults in crisis or heading towards a crisis. People can access one-to-one emotional support as well as help to create staying well and crisis plans. No referral or appointment is required.
Out-of-hours support will be delivered from community sites in Dartford, Folkestone, Gillingham, Tunbridge Wells, and Ramsgate, in addition to the existing sites in Canterbury and Maidstone. Medway and Thanet sites, which are co-located on hospital grounds, will also be increasing their opening hours.
Kent and Medway Safe Havens
The Safe Havens offer drop-in support to adults in crisis or heading towards a crisis. People can access one-to-one emotional support as well as help to create staying well and crisis plans. No referral or appointment is required.
Out-of-hours support will be delivered from community sites in Dartford, Folkestone, Gillingham, Tunbridge Wells, and Ramsgate, in addition to the existing sites in Canterbury and Maidstone. Medway and Thanet sites, which are co-located on hospital grounds, will also be increasing their opening hours.
National Support
Mind
Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
Rethink Mental Illness
Rethink Mental Illness improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness through a network of local groups and services, expert information and successful campaigning. The goal is to make sure everyone affected by severe mental illness has a good quality of life.
Anxiety UK
Anxiety UK was formed in 1970, by Katharine and Harold Fisher as a result of Katharine’s experience of agoraphobia and her desire to develop support for others similarly affected.
Samaritans
Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Combat Stress
Combat Stress is the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For a century, they’ve helped former servicemen and women with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
CALM (Campaign against living miserably)
The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.
Young Minds
Young Minds is leading the fight for a future where all young minds are supported and empowered, whatever their challenges.
Dementia UK
Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.
Qwell
Available for anyone aged 18 to 25 in Kent and Medway