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	31
Newry, Mourne and Down	28
Derry City and Strabane	26
Ards and North Down	23
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	23
Mid Ulster	22
Antrim and Newtownabbey	22
Fermanagh and Omagh	20
Lisburn and Castlereagh	20
Mid and East Antrim	18
Causeway Coast and Glens	17

Services on Minding your head by area of work

Area of work	Number of services available
Mental wellbeing support	43
Anxiety	36
Low mood and depression	34
Stress	33
Bereavement	21
Relationships	21
Trauma	20
Self-harm	20
Suicide	20
Perinatal mental health	16
Money worries and debt	12
Sleep	12
Drugs and alcohol	11
Domestic violence	10
Disability	10
Sexual violence	8
Sexual orientation and gender identity	8
Eating disorders	7
Sexual health	7
Chronic pain and illness	6
Financial abuse	5
Gambling	4

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served	Number of services available
General public	44
Parents	26
Carers	25
Students (further education)	14
Students (school aged)	13
Victims and survivors	12
LGBTQIA+	12
Rural communities	11
Minority ethnic communities	11
People with learning disabilities	10
Autism or neurodiversity	10
Refugees and asylum seekers	9
People with physical disabilities	9
Traveller communities	8
Veterans	6