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
Derry City and Strabane	20
Newry, Mourne and Down	19
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	17
Belfast	17
Antrim and Newtownabbey	16
Ards and North Down	16
Fermanagh and Omagh	14
Lisburn and Castlereagh	14
Mid Ulster	14
Mid and East Antrim	13
Causeway Coast and Glens	12

Services on Minding your head by area of work

Area of work	Number of services available
Mental wellbeing support	31
Anxiety	25
Low mood and depression	24
Stress	22
Perinatal mental health	14
Self-harm	13
Trauma	13
Suicide	12
Relationships	12
Bereavement	10
Money worries and debt	9
Disability	8
Eating disorders	7
Sexual violence	7
Domestic violence	7
Sleep	6
Drugs and alcohol	6
Sexual health	5
Sexual orientation and gender identity	5
Chronic pain and illness	5
Financial abuse	5
Gambling	3

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served	Number of services available
General public	28
Parents	21
Carers	20
LGBTQIA+	10
Victims and survivors	9
Rural communities	9
Autism or neurodiversity	8
Minority ethnic communities	8
People with learning disabilities	8
Students (school aged)	8
Students (further education)	8
Refugees and asylum seekers	6
Traveller communities	6
People with physical disabilities	6
Veterans	4