Find out how to access NHS mental health services and where to get urgent help.
Urgent advice: If it's an emergency or you need urgent help
- If you or someone else is in danger, call 999 or go to A&E now
- If you need urgent help for your mental health, get help from NHS 111 online or call 111
Your mental health is as important as your physical health. You will not be wasting anyone's time.
NHS therapy and counselling services
NHS talking therapies services are for people in England aged 18 or over. You can speak to your GP about talking therapies or get in touch with the talking therapies service directly without going to your GP. Talking therapies can treat conditions like:
- depression
- generalised anxiety
- social anxiety
- panic and agoraphobia
- other phobias
- obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- body dysmorphic disorder
Get NHS therapy and counselling
Find local mental health charities
You can visit Hub of Hope to search for mental health charities where you live. It's run by a national charity called Chasing the Stigma.
