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	28
Newry, Mourne and Down	27
Derry City and Strabane	26
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	22
Ards and North Down	22
Mid Ulster	21
Antrim and Newtownabbey	21
Fermanagh and Omagh	20
Lisburn and Castlereagh	19
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	39
Anxiety	33
Low mood and depression	32
Stress	30
Relationships	19
Trauma	19
Self-harm	19
Suicide	19
Bereavement	19
Perinatal mental health	15
Sleep	12
Money worries and debt	10
Drugs and alcohol	10
Disability	9
Domestic violence	9
Sexual violence	8
Eating disorders	7
Sexual orientation and gender identity	7
Chronic pain and illness	6
Sexual health	6
Financial abuse	5
Gambling	3

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served	Number of services available
General public	41
Parents	24
Carers	23
Students (school aged)	12
Students (further education)	12
LGBTQIA+	11
Rural communities	10
Victims and survivors	10
Minority ethnic communities	9
People with learning disabilities	9
Autism or neurodiversity	9
Refugees and asylum seekers	7
Traveller communities	7
People with physical disabilities	7
Veterans	5

About Minding your head