About Minding your head

Minding your head has information, advice and support to help people in Northern Ireland look after and improve their mental health and emotional wellbeing.

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
Anxiety
Low mood and depression
Stress
Relationships
Bereavement
Trauma
Self-harm
Suicide
Perinatal mental health
Money worries and debt
Sleep
Drugs and alcohol
Domestic violence
Disability
Sexual violence
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Eating disorders
Sexual health
Chronic pain and illness
Financial abuse
Gambling

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
Minority ethnic communities 11
Rural 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

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