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 41
Newry, Mourne and Down 36
Ards and North Down 36
Derry City and Strabane 34
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon 30
Antrim and Newtownabbey 29
Fermanagh and Omagh 29
Mid Ulster 28
Lisburn and Castlereagh 27
Mid and East Antrim 24
Causeway Coast and Glens 23

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
Relationships
Bereavement
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 60
Parents 33
Carers 29
Rural communities 20
Minority ethnic communities 19
Students (school aged) 18
Students (further education) 18
LGBTQIA+ 17
Victims and survivors 16
People with physical disabilities 15
People with learning disabilities 15
Autism or neurodiversity 13
Refugees and asylum seekers 12
Traveller communities 12
Veterans 10

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