The Herefordshire and Worcestershire campaign website has information, support, and resources for anyone struggling with a range of issues:

• Welcome to NHS Talking Therapies

The website provides free confidential online, group or 1:1 support for people experiencing common mental health problems, such as worry and depression. 

You must be 16 or over and registered with a GP in Worcestershire to access this service. For more information, call 0300 013 57 27 or complete the online self-referral form.

Struggling to cope? You're not alone.

We’re proud to partner with Shout to offer free and confidential text support to anyone in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Shout’s mental health professionals are available 24/7 and can help if you’re feeling stressed, isolated or low.

• Text “REACHOUT” to 85258 from anywhere in the UK to start a conversation

Worcestershire Safe Haven is run by Coventry, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Mind. It provides telephone support and face-to-face appointments to Worcestershire residents 18+ who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Offering a listening ear, support and guidance with accessing other services, the Safe Haven helps you manage the difficult times and hold your hand towards better mental wellbeing.

Call 01905 600400 to access the service. Phone lines are open every evening between 6pm and 1am (last calls taken at 12.30am). Following an initial phone call, you may be offered a face-to-face appointment for that same evening.  For more information visit:

• Worcestershire Safe Haven

Social Prescribing is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in the community and can support people experiencing issues such as loneliness and isolation, anxiety, as well as unemployment. 

Social prescribing services are provided by several different organisations in Worcestershire (which can be accessed through your GP practice), including: 

• Carers and Communities take referrals for patients registered with a Redditch or Wythall GP Surgery
• Citizens Advice South Worcestershire take referrals for patients registered with GP surgeries in Malvern
• Onside Advocacy take referrals for patients registered with GP surgeries in Bromsgrove, Wychavon and Wyre Forest. Onside also accept self-referrals

If you would like to be referred to a Social Prescribing link worker, please contact your GP.

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is part of the Employment and Reablement Pathway. The service is open to those currently receiving the Trust’s secondary mental health services and is by referral from their main mental health worker. A specialist mental health employment worker supports the individual to identify suitable vacancies, make approaches to employers and help with all stages of the application process. Within-work support is then offered. 

For more information, visit:

• Worcestershire IPS

The Employment Retention Service has helped individuals who have experienced mental health difficulties who are in work and struggling, or who are off sick and need support to get back to work. The service is integrated into Mental Health Community Teams where clients can access specialist employment support as part of their individual recovery.

• Employment Retention Service 

Free educational courses about mental health and recovery which are designed to increase your knowledge, skills and promote self-management. 

Face to face courses are available in Worcestershire, with many other courses delivered online. Open to people with a moderate to severe mental health illness, their family and close friends, or people who work to support them.

For more information, visit:

• Wellbeing and Recovery College

MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbian, gay bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) people, with lots of advice and guidance.

• MindOut 

The LGBT+ Switchboard helpline is a national one-stop listening service staffed by LGBT+ volunteers. Phone: 0300 330 0630 (10:00am to 10:00pm daily).

• LGBT+ Switchboard helpline

Mindline Trans+ is a national evening helpline offering emotional and mental health support for anyone who identifies as transgender, non-binary or genderfluid. Phone: 0300 330 5468 (Mondays and Fridays 8:00pm to midnight).

• Mindline Trans+

Mental Health and Money Advice is a national impartial organisation that has lots of advice and information on managing money, debts and benefits, as well as a toolkit to help you understand, manage and improve your mental and financial health.

• The Mental Health and Money Advice service

Money Helper is a government-approved online advice service, providing impartial free advice on money and debt issues.

• Free and impartial help with money, backed by the government

For more national information, visit:

• National benefits and support calculator

Rethink improve the lives of people with diagnosed mental illness with expert information and successful campaigning.

• Mental Health Charity: Advice, Services and Support across England

For mental health support for men, see our page:

• Men's mental health support page.

People of any age or gender can develop eating disorders, and it's best to get help as soon as possible. The first place to go is your GP, who should refer you for further assessment or treatment by a specialist eating disorder service.

You can also talk to an advisor with Beat, the UK's leading eating disorder charity, and find information and resources.

• The UK's Eating Disorder Charity - Beat

Kooth offers free online counselling and wellbeing support for young people aged 11 to 18. Individuals can join online peer support communities, access self-help materials, or engage in drop-in or booked one-to-one online chat sessions with experienced counsellors. 

• Kooth 

To find out more about how Kooth works, watch this informational video. 

Worcestershire CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) provides support with emotional and mental wellbeing, for children, young people and their parents or carers. Their website has lots of information, resources, and short films about common problems.

• Mental health help to children, young people and their families

Support and information on services for children and young people up to 25, and their parents and carers. 

• for children and young people: Find help young minds
• for parents: Parents Mental Health Support
• parent's helpline: 0808 802 5544 (Monday to Friday 9:30am to 4:00pm. Free for mobiles and landlines)