Mid and North East Essex Mind provide counselling, practical support and peer support for children from the age of 5 and adults of all ages.

Telephone: 01206 764600

Website: www.mnessexmind.org

Email: enquiries@mnessexmind.org

Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust (EPUT) provides integrated care including mental health, learning disability, social care and community health services.

Telephone: 0300 123 0808

Website: www.eput.nhs.uk

For support in a mental health crisis and to prevent self-harm or suicide (in an emergency call 999 or 111)  

Website: Stay Alive App - Grassroots Suicide Prevention (prevent-suicide.org.uk)

Offers vital advice and guidance to parents/carers who are concerned about their child’s mental health. Get access to support and find out how to navigate services for your child and practical techniques to help. Call Parents Helpline for detailed advice, emotional support and signposting about a child or young person up to the age of 25.

You can call for free on 0808 802 5544 from 9:30am - 4pm, Monday - Friday.

A charity offering support for parents of children with depression, anxiety or other mental health issue. The service can be accessed via joining a closed Facebook group.

https://m.facebook.com/100068835562227/

A fantastic men’s suicide prevention charity offering free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups every Monday evening across the United Kingdom and online. They aim to end the stigma surrounding men’s mental health and help men through the power of conversation. #ITSOKAYTO TALK.

Website: https://andysmanclub.co.uk

For Chelmsford, they meet at Writtle University Centre for Health and Sport every Monday from 7pm.

Free anonymous online chat for young people to discuss your mental health issues.

Website: www.kooth.com

Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Telephone: 0300 123 3393

Website: www.mind.org.uk

A 24/7 text service offering support to take you from a hot moment to feeling calmer, A safe space where you’re listened to by a trained Crisis Volunteer. The service is based on a tried and tested model of crisis support. 24/7 anonymous free conversation that won’t show on your phone bill,. Professional support creating a simple plan of action to manage your crisis. 

For support in a crisis, Text Shout to 85258 

Website: Get help - free, 24/7, confidential mental health text support service | Shout 85258 (giveusashout.org)

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.

Telephone: 116 123

Website: www.samaritans.org

Email: jo@samaritans.org

Samaritans local helpline: 01245 357357 (Chelmsford & Mid-Essex area)

Rethink provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems.

Telephone: 0300 5000 927

Website: www.rethink.org

Email: info@rethink.org

Find advice and support about mental health for children, teenagers, students and parents.

Website: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/children-and-young-adults/

Helping you to help your anxiety. A huge range of useful resources and services.

Helpline: 03444 775 774

Text support: 07537 416 905 (open Mon-Fri 09:30 – 17:30)

Website: https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Support for children and young people and parents with their mental health.

Website: https://www.youngminds.org.uk

Meditation exercises to enable you to pay attention to the present moment, helping you become more aware of your thoughts & feelings. Proven to help stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue & sleep problems, relationship problems, and even physical problems like chronic pain. 

Website: Home - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Website: Be Mindful | Digital MBCT program (bemindfulonline.com)

Website: Meditation and Sleep Made Simple - Headspace

The Shed’s purpose is to share skills and experiences, provide a haven to combat loneliness and isolation and to add value to communities. It is an opportunity to use any skills in wood working, hobbying or any other specialist areas of making/repairing/up cycling or just to meet up for a chat and a cuppa, sometimes with cake and with other Shedders.

 Find a Shed near you:

Website: https://essexshednetwork.co.uk/find-shed

Mates FC’s goal is not about being the best team in the league or getting the right players. Their goal is to get people back into football and use the beautiful game of football as a weapon to fight depression, anxiety and other mental heal issues.  

Contact Telephone - Richard Murphy: 07725 582699

Brave Future is a nature-based group therapy programme set up to support clients who have experienced grief, trauma, addictions, social isolation, anxiety and depression which has affected their mental health and wellbeing

Website: Using nature to support and transform lives and improve mental wellbeing (wildernessfoundation.org.uk)

A support group for men and their mental health. They get together a couple of times a month and have a stroll around a country park whilst having a chat in a safe place without judgement. It gives men the opportunity to offload, get things off our chest and talk about how we are feeling rather than bottling it up and suffering in silence.

Mental fitness is just as is important as our physical fitness. Men in general find it difficult to open up and talk about their feelings. They often see it as a weakness, they feel they always need to be strong, tough and macho. At Walk&Talk4Men they want to encourage men that’s it’s okay to talk and that nobody is alone.

https://www.livewellcampaign.co.uk/livewell-articles/walk-and-talk-4-men/

Website: livewell@braintree.gov.uk