Mental Health

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.

Visit the website to self-refer

Amparo

Support for anybody who has felt the impact of suicide

Amparo provides free emotional and practical support for anybody who has felt the impact of suicide.

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Amparo also runs briefing sessions for professionals who may be interested in knowing more about the service. The sessions are all free and online and can be booked online.

Book a free online session

Kent School Health referral

Refer into the school health service for emotional wellbeing support

Visit the website to self-refer

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.

Visit the website to self-refer

Mood Spark

Mood spark is a space created by young people for young people to help navigate and learn about emotions.

Visit the website to self-refer

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.

Visit the website to self-refer

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.

Visit the website to self-refer

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).