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	48
Newry, Mourne and Down	41
Ards and North Down	41
Derry City and Strabane	39
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	35
Fermanagh and Omagh	34
Antrim and Newtownabbey	34
Mid Ulster	33
Lisburn and Castlereagh	32
Mid and East Antrim	29
Causeway Coast and Glens	28

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
Suicide
Self-harm
Sleep
Perinatal mental health
Domestic violence
Sexual violence
Money worries and debt
Drugs and alcohol
Disability
Financial abuse
Eating disorders
Chronic pain and illness
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Sexual health
Gambling

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served	Number of services available
General public	66
Parents	37
Carers	32
Rural communities	24
Minority ethnic communities	23
Students (school aged)	22
Students (further education)	21
LGBTQIA+	19
Victims and survivors	18
People with physical disabilities	17
People with learning disabilities	17
Autism or neurodiversity	15
Refugees and asylum seekers	14
Traveller communities	14
Veterans	12