Welcome to Thanet Health Service Directory, a resource for information on local and national services. To update your listing or if you have any queries, please email directory.thcic@nhs.net
Specialises in assisting those affected by brain injury, spinal injuries, cerebral palsy and other complex needs.
167a John Wilson Business Park
Chestfield
Whitstable
Kent
CT5 3RA
Tel: 01227 287878
Whether you have anxiety, stress, anxiety-based depression or a phobia that’s affecting your daily life, we’re here to help you. Offers a wide range of services.
Nationwide
Tel: 0344 477 5774
Text: 07537 416905
Helps people to understand the illness, and supports them to take positive steps towards recovery. Also supports family and friends, equipping them with essential skills and advice, so they can help their loved ones recover whilst also looking after their own mental health.
Nationwide
Helpline: 0808 801 0677
Taking a stand against suicide by provoking conversation, running life-saving services, and bringing people together so they reject living miserably, get help when they need it and don’t die by suicide.
Nationwide
Helpline: 0800 58 58 58
Calm Harm is an app funded by teenage mental health charity stem4. Provides some immediate activities and techniques to help break the cycle of self-harm behaviour.
Nationwide
Helps young people to understand their own mental health, to equip them to support themselves and those around them, and to empower them to talk more openly about the subject.
Nationwide
Tel: 01635 869754
An alliance of businesses, working together with mental health experts and partner organisations, so that every workplace will protect, support and create positive mental health for their people.
Nationwide
Provides specialist treatment and support for veterans from every service and conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues.
Nationwide
Helpline: 0800 138 1619
Tel: 0800 323 4444 serving personnel and their families
Text: 07537 173683
Provides emotional wellbeing and mental health advice and support for young people and their families across Kent.
Across Kent & Medway
Tel: 0300 123 4496 for self-referral or on behalf of someone else
Tel: 0800 011 3474 crisis or out of hours support
Text: Kent or Medway to 85258 for 24 hour mental health crisis support via text
Support for those affected by or at risk from depression.
Nationwide
To help young people aged 12-25 navigate the issues affecting them the most, from mental health and bullying to identity and relationships.
Nationwide
Tel: 01273 201129
Helps people with any kind of mental illness to find and sustain paid employment. Does not provide support for accessing volunteering.
Across Thanet, Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
Tel: 07483 332505
A supportive online community where you can be yourself. Getting active is easier said than done so Active Eles happily share tips and advice and they won’t judge you.
Nationwide
The Kent counselling and talking therapies service is free and available to anyone aged 17.5+ and registered with a GP in East Kent, Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley, or Swale.
Across Kent
Tel: 0300 555 5555
Provides mental health support for adults aged 16+. The service is free to use and you do not need an appointment to access the service.
Across Folkestone & Hythe
Tel: 07827 533871
Online one-stop place to help signpost you to support and services.
Across Kent & Medway
'Positive Steps' has been specifically designed to address some of the barriers to learning that people may face, therefore helping to make the first step into learning more achievable. The scheme includes a distinct set of pathways, onto which referrals are accepted via a link worker, community connector or any health professional.
Across Kent
This telephone service is available to people in Kent and Medway who need urgent advice about their mental health, or the mental health of a friend or relative. There will be someone to answer your call at any time of the day or night, any day of the week. You do not need an appointment and all calls are free.
Text: "Kent" to 85258 for 24 hour mental health crisis support
A short-term service to anyone over 18 designed to help you achieve your personal goals and enhance your independence at home and in the community.
Across Kent
Tel: 03000 411345
Provides a wide range of adult mental health and learning disability services to people in Kent and Medway.
Across Kent & Medway
Tel: 0800 783 9972
An online mental wellbeing community. Free, safe and anonymous support.
Nationwide
Tel: 0800 055 555
A national health and wellbeing charity supporting over 100,000 LGBTQ+ people a month by providing trusted information, advice and various types of support including one-to-one, group and peer-support.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 7738 6872
An audiobook lending charity for those that find their illness, mental health, physical or learning disability affects their ability to read the printed word or hold a book.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 7407 9417
Meets with individuals to discuss issues they are facing with mental health, finance, housing , employment and more. Provides one to one advice and guidance and connects people to support in their local area.
Across Kent
Tel: 0800 567 7699
Provides one to one advice and guidance and connects people to support in their local area.
Across Kent
Tel: 0800 567 7699
If you’re aged 17+ and live in Kent or Medway, Live Well Kent's network of voluntary organisations and charities can support you with various issues.
Across Kent & Medway
Tel: 0800 567 7699
With plenty of tools, resources, and stories, Mental Health at Work makes navigating the workplace mental health landscape easy.
Nationwide
Working towards good mental health for all.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 7803 1100
Provides personal care and support in ways that have positive outcomes for service users and promotes their active participation.
Across Kent
Tel: 01227 712300
Provides support to your workplace through adapted training and new resources. We will support your organisation to look after the mental health of your employees.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 3928 0760
Provides innovative, life-changing mental health support for individuals and communities.
Nationwide
For Kent & Medway see website link below
Offers out of hours mental health support to anyone aged 18 or over. No appointment or referral needed.
Across Canterbury
Tel: 07876 476703 or 07483 163953
Opening hours:
Every day (including weekends and bank holidays) 6pm -11pm
This is a walk-in service, there's no need to be referred by your GP or Care Coordinator. Provides information and emotional support for anyone aged 18 or over.
Across Medway
Tel: 07850 901151 or 07808 795036
Opening hours:
Every day (including weekends and bank holidays) 24 hours a day
Provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem.
Nationwide
Tel: 0300 123 3393
Free Suicide Prevention & Awareness training sessions to anyone in Kent and Medway that wants to learn how to support other people when they are in crisis.
Across Kent & Medway
Tel: 01622 692383
Free and confidential treatments on the NHS. It can help with common mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression. You can refer yourself directly to an NHS Talking Therapies Service without a referral from a GP, or a GP can refer you.
Nationwide
Helps and supports those living with Panic Attacks, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and other related anxiety disorders.
Helpline: 0300 772 9844
Support service for families and their networks who may be suffering with perinatal mental illness, including prenatal (antenatal) and postnatal depression.
Nationwide
Tel: 0808 1961 776
Provides confidential support and advice to young people struggling with thoughts of suicide, and anyone worried about a young person.
Nationwide
HOPELINE247: 0800 068 4141
Provides mental health services in schools using an effective therapeutic approach. Advice and support for families and school staff.
Tel: 020 7923 5500
Support, advice and information for homeless and vulnerable people. The BeYou Project provides safe spaces and advice for LGBTQ+ young people, a group who are particularly at risk of homelessness.
Across Kent
Tel: 0800 567 7699
A free service for anyone over 25 who is not currently in employment. The project has now come to a close and will no longer take new referrals but if you have already been referred to Aspirations, we will continue working with you in the usual way.
Across Kent
Tel: 0333 880 2730
Provide crisis advice and practical support.
Nationwide
Tel: 0808 196 7272
24/7 Free and confidential counselling support via highly trained and experienced support workers who offer free advice and can help no matter what you are going through.
Across Kent
Tel: 0800 107 0160
Text the word Kent to: 85258
Dedicated to reducing feelings of isolation and disconnection that can lead to suicide.
Nationwide
Tel: 116 123
Works to improve the quality of life for anyone affected by mental illness.
Nationwide
SANEline Tel: 0300 304 7000
A free, confidential, anonymous text support service. If you are struggling to cope and need to talk, trained Shout Volunteers are here for you, day or night.
Nationwide
Text: 85258
Working to improve the health and wellbeing and promote easier access to healthcare and information for deaf people.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 3947 2600
Text: 07860 033214
Offers peer-led support to adults impacted by suicide loss. Provides safe, confidential environments where people can share their experiences and feelings, giving and gaining support from each other.
Nationwide
Tel: 0300 111 5065
Support for serving personnel, veterans and their families in their time of need.
Across Kent
Tel: 020 4566 9126
Helps people held back by poverty, exploitation, abuse, dealing with addiction or mental health problems, caught up in crime or a combination of these issues and others. Shows people there is a way to build a better future.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 7708 8000
A digital mental health charity for children and young people. Offers mental health apps that support various mental health conditions.
Nationwide
Supports people with mental health problems to improve their wellbeing and live happier and healthier lives.
Across East Kent
Tel: 01227 788211
Empowers people of all ages to read. Transforms lives for the better through the power of reading.
Nationwide
Tel: 07933 181889
A unique mental health service offering an anonymous and safe support community, moderated by professionals and counsellors.
Nationwide
Provides free, confidential support to people experiencing issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.
Nationwide
A specialist mental health charity, providing free counselling and therapy for women who have experienced domestic abuse.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 7034 0303
Helps with understanding more about how you're feeling and finding ways to feel better.
Nationwide
Text SHOUT to: 85258
Parents Helpline Tel: 0808 802 5544
Advice and counselling network. YIACS also known as ‘early support hubs', providing transformational support for young people all over the UK.
Nationwide
Tel: 020 877 2990
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