Mental health helplines and services for young people in Westminster
52 services found
NATTER
Provided by Mental Health Innovations
Get confidential support through text messaging. You can text about anything that’s on your mind. Your text will be answered by trained volunteers.
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Community hubs for adults with learning disabilities
Provided by Learning Disability Network London
The Community Hub runs activities, workshops, and events. This includes social activities, employment help, getting advice, and making London more inclusive and accessible. You can join a group that meets each month to plan future sessions.
Therapy for autistic people and people with learning disabilities who have experienced abuse or trauma
Provided by Respond
Respond offers therapy to young people and adults who have experienced trauma and are autistic or have a learning disability. There are some free spaces available, but the website has information about applying for funding if you can’t get a free space. Respond also offers family support, but there are no free spaces for this.
Support for young people with SEND
Provided by Kids Can Achieve
Kids Can Achieve has a family service that provides free one-to-one and group support to the parents and carers of children with a special educational need or disability. Your parents or carers can get help with things like benefits, housing, and emotional support – you don’t need a diagnosis. If you have a learning disability, your family might be able to get a small grant too. Kids Can Achieve also runs clubs and activities in Harrow, but these cost money – they can help you work out if the council or NHS can help you pay for you.
Kooth
An online platform that offers one-to-one online chats with mental health professionals. You can chat to a professional when the chat is open, but you can explore the other parts of Kooth all the time.
WorkWell
Provided by Shaw Trust
WorkWell helps people who have a health issue that makes it hard to find or stay in a job. A coach can help you make a plan that fits your goals, including finding jobs that interest you and building skills you need for work. You might get advice from occupational health or employment experts or from other local services too.
Scope helpline
Provided by Scope
A helpline giving advice and support on issues that matter to disabled people and their families. They can help with things like benefits, social care, housing, equipment, and working.
Learning Disability Helpline
Provided by Mencap
A helpline that gives advice and support to people with a learning disability and their families and carers. They can advise on things like social care, safeguarding, benefits, and housing. They are not a crisis service.
Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People
Provided by CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Offers help and support to young people who have (or are thought to have) an eating disorder including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and other specified feeding or eating disorder.
Counselling and therapeutic support
Provided by Women and Girls Network
Specialist counselling and therapeutic services are for women and girls living in London who have experienced any form of gendered violence or sexual violence, including female genital mutilation, honour-based violence, and forced marriage.
FAQ - Mental health services on Best For You
I need help urgently – what should I do?
Please visit the Get help now page to find services that can provide urgent help. If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999 now.
Why are most services located in north-west London?
Best For You is run in partnership by four organisations in north-west London (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, West London NHS Trust, and CW+). This means we can provide more information and detail about the helplines and services available in these north-west London boroughs.
We also list national support that you can access from anywhere in England.
If you work for an NHS organisation and would like to talk to Best For You about working together, please get in touch.
How do you choose which services to list?
We list services that are free for young people to access and provide support for mental health and wellbeing.
For NHS services, we list the main services that people can access by referring themselves or being referred by a professional (like a GP or someone at school).
If you know of a service that we could add, please get in touch and tell us about it.
How do I tell you about a service you could add?
If you know of a service that we could add, please get in touch and tell us about it.
Why did my search return no results?
If your search has lots of filters, it might be that there isn’t a service that meets every single criteria. You could try removing a filters like ‘Type of support’ to see the services that are available in your area.
Whatever you’re struggling with, you can always text NATTER to 85258 to chat to a trained volunteer by text message. You can talk to a NATTER volunteer about anything that’s on your mind, and it’s free and confidential. Find out more about texting NATTER.
The thing I want help for isn’t listed as a topic – what should I do?
Unfortunately, it isn’t possible for us to list every single possible thing that young people might be struggling with.
You could try choosing the closest available filter – or select ‘How I’m feeling’ to see helplines and services that offer more general support for people who are struggling.
Whatever’s going on, you can always text NATTER to 85258 to chat to a trained volunteer by text message. You can talk to a NATTER volunteer about anything that’s on your mind, and it’s free and confidential. Find out more about texting NATTER.
Can you help me to find personalised support?
Unfortunately we cannot provide advice or signposting to individuals.
You can use this tool to find services in England or read about how to get NHS mental health support.
Whatever’s going on, you can always text NATTER to 85258 to chat to a trained volunteer by text message. You can talk to a NATTER volunteer about anything that’s on your mind, and it’s free and confidential. Find out more about texting NATTER.
Text NATTER for help
Anyone can text ‘NATTER’ to 85258 to seek
help, wherever they are in the UK. It’s a free, anonymous service and available 24/7.
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