Live Well Kent and Medway provides free mental health support for people aged 17+. Whatever it is, we’re here to help you.

The Mix is the UK’s leading support service for young people. We are here to help you take on any challenge you’re facing - from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. Talk to us via our online community, on social, through our free, confidential helpline or our counselling service.

You can contact the Kent and Medway Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service provided by North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT). They offer emotional wellbeing and mental health support to children and young people. 

If you are in crisis call their 24-hour Single Point of Access on 

0800 011 3474

The helpline is a telephone service available to adults (aged 18 and over) in Kent and Medway who are concerned about their mental health, or the mental health of a friend or relative, and need urgent help.

0800 783 9111

This service is for members of the public who are not currently receiving care or treatment from KMPT.

You can call at any time of the day or night, any day of the week. You do not need an appointment and all calls are free

You can contact Childline about anything. Whatever your worry, it's better out than in. We're here to support you.

There are lots of different ways to speak to a Childline counsellor or get support from other young people; Email, text, call or a 1-1 conversation with an online counsellor, 

Free 24/7 support across the UK if you are experiencing a mental health crisis. 

All texts are answered by trained volunteers, with support from experienced clinical supervisors. Texts are free from EE, O2, Vodafone, 3, Virgin Mobile, BT Mobile, GiffGaff, Tesco Mobile and Telecom Plus.

Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, anonymous text support service. You can text from wherever you are in the UK.

An online counselling and emotional wellbeing platform

Mood Spark is a website created by young people for young people to explore emotions. 

Papyrus offer confidential suicide prevention advice and support.  They offer a support line, text service, apps to support your wellbeing and a forum with help and advice.

The Calm Harm app provides some immediate activities and techniques to help you break the cycle of self-harm behaviour and explore underlying trigger factors; the app supports you in building a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours, and access to supportive people, as well as providing the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. The Calm Harm app also signposts to help.

The app is private, anonymous, and safe.

Holding on Letting Go offer support for young people through a residential weekend and signposting to other organisations.

Hope Again is the youth website of Cruse Bereavement Support. It has been created for young people, by young people. They offer support, advice and a type of signposting service, solely online to children and young people who have lost a loved one

Cruse offer an online chat, one to one support, a helpline and support through their Social Media Channels.

BEAT are there to support people who have or are worried they have an eating disorder, as well as others affected, such as friends and family members.

They can help through a web chat, email advice, forums and peer support groups. 

You can refer yourself to the Eating Disorder service or someone at the college can help you.  The service in Medway offers:

• Online and Guided Self Help

• Family Therapy

• Individual Cognitive Behaviour Therapy-E

• Groupwork

• Medical Assessment and Reviews

• Dietetic Advice and Support