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Local Support
Oxfordshire Talking Therapies (formerly TalkingSpace Plus)
Oxfordshire Talking Therapies provides counselling services.
Counsellors work to reduce risk and help people understand themselves and their situations better.
University of Oxford Student Counselling Service
Oxford University students are able to access the University of Oxford Student Counselling service.
Oxfordshire Mind
Oxfordshire Mind, your local mental health charity. We’ve been campaigning for better mental health in Oxfordshire for over 50 years with our campaigning and support services. Like all local Minds, we are an independent charity that is proud to be affiliated with the national Mind association.
Oxfordshire Mind - Safe Haven
Oxfordshire Safe Haven is a safe and welcoming space for when you’ve reached the point where it feels like there’s no way out. We’re open 365 days a year, and you can think of us as being like A&E for your mental health.
Oxford Health CAMHS
Oxford Health CAMHS help young people who are finding it hard to cope with everyday life because of difficult feelings, behaviour or relationships.
Oxford Health CAMHS work with youngsters in Bath & NE Somerset, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Swindon and Wiltshire.
Self-Help Apps
Moodgym
Moodgym is an interactive program designed to help you:
- Identify whether you are having problems with emotions like anxiety and depression.
- Learn skills that can help you cope with these emotions.
Moodgym is based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy, which have been shown to be successful in preventing and treating depression and anxiety.
Be Mindful
Created so that anyone can easily practise mindfulness and enjoy better mental health.
The Be Mindful program is a standalone intervention or works in conjunction with existing treatments to help reduce the need for medication and face-to-face appointments.
Headspace
Think of Headspace as your lifelong guide to better mental health. We’re here for you whenever you need us, wherever you are, helping you get through tough times and find joy in everyday.
Calmharm
Calm Harm is an award-winning app funded by the teenage mental health charity stem4, to help manage the urge to self-harm. It was developed by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause MBE, in collaboration with young people and uses principles from an evidence-based psychological treatment called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
Sleepio
Sleepio is a six-week clinically proven programme used to treat insomnia, available free on the NHS.
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.