About Minding your head

Minding your head has information, advice and support to help people in Northern Ireland look after and improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing.

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 42
Newry, Mourne and Down 37
Ards and North Down 37
Derry City and Strabane 35
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon 31
Antrim and Newtownabbey 30
Fermanagh and Omagh 30
Mid Ulster 29
Lisburn and Castlereagh 28
Mid and East Antrim 25
Causeway Coast and Glens 24

Services on Minding your head by area of work

Area of work Number of services available
Mental wellbeing support
Anxiety
Low mood and depression
Stress
Trauma
Bereavement
Relationships
Self-harm
Suicide
Domestic violence
Perinatal mental health
Sleep
Sexual violence
Money worries and debt
Drugs and alcohol
Disability
Financial abuse
Eating disorders
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Chronic pain and illness
Sexual health
Gambling

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served Number of services available
General public 61
Parents 34
Carers 30
Rural communities 21
Minority ethnic communities 20
Students (school aged) 19
Students (further education) 19
LGBTQIA+ 18
Victims and survivors 17
People with learning disabilities 16
People with physical disabilities 16
Autism or neurodiversity 14
Refugees and asylum seekers 13
Traveller communities 13
Veterans 11

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