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	29
Newry, Mourne and Down	27
Derry City and Strabane	26
Ards and North Down	22
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	22
Antrim and Newtownabbey	21
Mid Ulster	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	40
Anxiety	34
Low mood and depression	33
Stress	31
Relationships	20
Self-harm	19
Suicide	19
Bereavement	19
Trauma	19
Perinatal mental health	16
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
Sexual health	6
Chronic pain and illness	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	25
Carers	24
Students (school aged)	12
Students (further education)	12
Victims and survivors	11
LGBTQIA+	11
Rural communities	10
Minority ethnic communities	10
Autism or neurodiversity	9
People with learning disabilities	9
Refugees and asylum seekers	8
Traveller communities	7
People with physical disabilities	7
Veterans	5

About Minding your head