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	24
Newry, Mourne and Down	22
Derry City and Strabane	22
Ards and North Down	19
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	19
Antrim and Newtownabbey	18
Lisburn and Castlereagh	16
Mid Ulster	16
Fermanagh and Omagh	16
Mid and East Antrim	15
Causeway Coast and Glens	14

Services on Minding your head by area of work

Area of work	Number of services available
Mental wellbeing support	37
Anxiety	32
Low mood and depression	31
Stress	29
Relationships	18
Trauma	18
Self-harm	18
Suicide	18
Bereavement	17
Perinatal mental health	15
Sleep	12
Money worries and debt	10
Domestic violence	8
Disability	8
Sexual violence	7
Eating disorders	7
Drugs and alcohol	6
Sexual orientation and gender identity	6
Chronic pain and illness	6
Financial abuse	5
Sexual health	5
Gambling	3

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served	Number of services available
General public	36
Parents	21
Carers	20
LGBTQIA+	10
Students (school aged)	9
Students (further education)	9
Victims and survivors	9
Rural communities	9
People with learning disabilities	8
Autism or neurodiversity	8
Minority ethnic communities	8
Traveller communities	6
People with physical disabilities	6
Refugees and asylum seekers	6
Veterans	4