About Minding your head

Minding your head is the Public Health Agency’s (PHA's) website that provides information, advice and support to help people in Northern Ireland look after and improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Minding your head hosts a Northern Ireland directory of services that offer support with mental health, emotional wellbeing, suicide prevention and other issues in Northern Ireland.

Services are added to the directory and kept up to date by the organisation that provides them. PHA does not quality assure each service.

Services on Minding your head by council area

Council area	Number of services available
Belfast	53
Ards and North Down	46
Newry, Mourne and Down	45
Derry City and Strabane	43
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	39
Fermanagh and Omagh	38
Antrim and Newtownabbey	38
Mid Ulster	37
Lisburn and Castlereagh	36
Mid and East Antrim	33
Causeway Coast and Glens	32

Services on Minding your head by area of work

Area of work	Number of services available
Mental wellbeing support	62
Anxiety	50
Low mood and depression	49
Stress	47
Trauma	34
Bereavement	31
Relationships	29
Self-harm	27
Suicide	27
Perinatal mental health	19
Sleep	19
Sexual violence	17
Domestic violence	17
Money worries and debt	16
Drugs and alcohol	15
Disability	12
Financial abuse	12
Chronic pain and illness	11
Eating disorders	10
Sexual orientation and gender identity	9
Sexual health	8
Gambling	5

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served	Number of services available
General public	71
Parents	37
Carers	32
Rural communities	25
Minority ethnic communities	24
Students (school aged)	23
Students (further education)	23
LGBTQIA+	20
Victims and survivors	19
People with physical disabilities	18
People with learning disabilities	18
Autism or neurodiversity	16
Refugees and asylum seekers	15
Traveller communities	15
Veterans	13

About Minding your head