Whether you need urgent help for your mental health, are worried about someone else or are looking for a local service, there's help available.
NHS 111
If you need urgent help for your mental health, call NHS 111 and select the mental health option.
Accessibility options
If you have a hearing problem
You can use text relay. Call 18001 111 using the Relay UK app or a textphone. This is available 24 hours a day.
Find out how to use the Relay UK app or a textphone on the Relay UK website
If you need help in another language
British sign language (BSL) - use signvideo.co.uk/nhs111.
Other languages - call 111 and ask for an interpreter.
Talking Therapies
We are a psychological therapy service offering a range of free talking therapies to people aged 16 and over in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
One in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year. Many of us go through difficult times in our lives, which can leave us feeling worried, anxious or depressed and feeling unable to cope. Talking Therapies offer a range of brief psychological interventions to support people’s differing emotional needs (such as generalised anxiety, panic, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)). This includes online, telephone and face-to-face treatment and therapy options.
You can self-refer to our Talking Therapies online.
Hub of Hope
The UK’s largest mental health support directory. Search for services and support near you.
Visit the Hub of Hope website or download the app on your phone.
Waythrough
Confidential support for mental health, drugs, alcohol or related challenges.
Self-help apps
We have partnered with ORCHA to bring you a library of approved and tested apps to monitor, manage and improve your health and wellbeing.
Healthy Young Minds
The Healthy Young Minds website offers advice, guidance and support related to children and young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing.
NHS self-help guides
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear have produced a series of self-help guides covering a wide range of topics such as depression, anxiety and stress which offer users the opportunity to find out more about the causes of mental health issues and provide tools to work through feelings and emotions.
The self-help guides contain verified information and are written by NHS clinical psychologists with contributions from service users, healthcare and voluntary sector staff.
They’re not intended to replace the advice of a medical professional.