Mental Health Support

This website contains lots of information, including a self-referral form for access to the Kent Children’s and Young People’s Counselling service. It also promotes the Chat Health text service for young people.

A website providing information and support for young people and their parents. Includes a crisis text service and a parents' helpline. 

A resource for young people, parents, and professionals working with young people providing information and advice aimed at helping to improve resilience.

A mental health community with articles, discussion boards and online counselling.

This website was created by young people in Kent for young people in Kent. It helps to improve resilience.

A mental health community like Kooth but aimed at young people aged between 16 and 18.

A website providing support for young people aged 10 to 25. It has self-help articles and guides, discussion boards, an online chat function with a trained adult, and text services. It includes a crisis service too.

A website providing support to children and young people. It has self-help articles, guides, and discussion boards. Children and young people can chat to a trained adult online or on the freephone number provided.

Offers confidential advice and support for young people struggling with suicidal thoughts. Its helpline service - HOPELINEUK - is available to anybody under the age of 35 experiencing suicidal thoughts, or anybody concerned that a young person could be thinking of suicide.

Shout is the UK's first and only free and confidential 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope. Text Shout 85258 for support.

Is a therapeutic gaming app to help young people cope with bereavement. It acts as a guide through grief, translating bereavement-counselling techniques into a beautifully illustrated, magical 3D world.  The app was co-created by child psychology experts with young people who have faced loss themselves and it’s endorsed by major bereavement charities (including Child Bereavement UK).

Helps children talk about feelings, with advice to support wellbeing. Ollee is a digital friend for children aged 8-11, created by Parent Zone and BBC Children in Need’s A Million & Me initiative. It helps children explore their feelings around subjects like school, family, friends, their body, the world and the internet, and it encourages them to seek the support of their parents or another trusted adult. Ollee supports conversations between children and parents and helps them to share expert advice with each other through connected accounts.

An app to support children and young people who are self-harming. The app supports young people through the waves of emotion that they are feeling that normally leads to self-harming, offering safer coping strategies.

The Hub of Hope is a UK wide mental health support database which brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place.

Has been developed by Australian psychologists and educators to address the rise of youth mental illness. It focuses on wellbeing through mindfulness, and has something for every age, including children as young as four years' old. Its bitesize meditations are great for children’s bedtimes. Free to download, it’s a good alternative to the paid-for Headspace and Calm apps.

Helps families and friends support young people with their mental health. Combined Minds uses a ’Strengths-Based’ approach which has been shown to be effective in recovery. This approach focuses on the positive attributes of the person and builds on resourcefulness and resilience.  Combined Minds helps families and friends find ways to provide the right environment to help the individuals they support affect their own change. As important influences in the lives of young people, this provides a positive impact on their mental health.

Is an app intended for parents and caregivers to use with their young children (aged 2-5). The app aims to help teach children real-world problem-solving skills by calming down and solving everyday challenges. Tap and touch to help the monster friend take deep breaths, think of plans, and try them out!

Uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help the user to learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of anxiety. Specific tools help users tackle issues such as dealing with perfectionism, worry, panic, social anxiety and phobia. These tools address everyday situations that contribute to increased levels of anxiety, in order to help users change their overall relationship with anxiety. The goal is to help young people learn and practice anxiety coping skills.

Features a number of children's bedtime meditation stories including 6 completely free children's bedtime meditations and many more available as in-app purchases.  The app has meditations and mindfulness tracks for children of all ages and covers a range of themes to help your kids to sleep soundly at night. The topics include sleep, bedtime, mindfulness, general confidence, anxiety, stress, self esteem and more. The meditations can help kids feel confident and motivated at school, cope with peer pressure and fitting in with friends, and generally to feel happier and more positive.