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	30
Newry, Mourne and Down	27
Derry City and Strabane	26
Ards and North Down	23
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	22
Mid Ulster	21
Antrim and Newtownabbey	21
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	41
Anxiety	35
Low mood and depression	34
Stress	32
Relationships	20
Trauma	20
Self-harm	20
Suicide	20
Bereavement	20
Perinatal mental health	16
Sleep	12
Money worries and debt	11
Drugs and alcohol	11
Domestic violence	10
Disability	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	4

Services on Minding your head by who we can help

Audience served	Number of services available
General public	42
Parents	26
Carers	25
Students (school aged)	13
Students (further education)	13
LGBTQIA+	12
Victims and survivors	12
Rural communities	11
Minority ethnic communities	11
People with learning disabilities	10
Autism or neurodiversity	10
Refugees and asylum seekers	9
Traveller communities	8
People with physical disabilities	8
Veterans	6