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Mental Health

Local Support

Searchange Devon

Seachange is a charity which provides an inspiring new approach to community support. Working on the basis that good health and happiness are closely linked, we offer easy access to practical support for all generations, young and old, within its area of Exmouth, Woodbury and Budleigh Salterton.

Visit the Searchange Devon website

Talkworks

A free, confidential, NHS talking therapy service for adults, offering effective treatments and therapies, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), to help with low mood, stress and depression, and for people living with panic attacks, social anxiety/shyness, phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), agoraphobia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and health anxiety

Visit the Talkworks website

AccEPT

The AccEPT Clinic is an NHS funded psychological therapies service in Exeter offering Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for adults who have had depression in the past and are looking for ways to stay well. MBCT is a nationally recommended treatment for recurrent depression, and we are a centre of excellence in the UK, running for 12 years now.

We are the main local provider of MBCT serving the Mid, East and North of Devon, as well as being a centre for high-quality research and training in MBCT in the UK. The Service is free to all patients in the NEW Devon catchment area and patients can either be referred by their GP or you can direct patients to refer themselves. We run groups regularly throughout the year so referrals are always open. In usual times we run face to face groups in Exeter, East, Mid and North Devon but currently our courses are online via Zoom.

Visit the AccEPT website

The Moorings Crisis Support

Can we help you during the cold, dark, often wet miserable nights of winter? Are you dreading the holiday season? Are you worrying about the cost? Or perhaps the cost of keeping your home warm and dry this winter.

Rather than looking to A&E or suffering in silence, come and pay us a visit, you won’t have the long wait and we will try to help you find a solution to the things in your life that are causing you distress. Here you can access one-to-one support from the team in a warm and welcoming, a safe, non-judgmental and non-clinical environment. We will work with you to reduce your immediate distress, and support you to access services and opportunities available to you.

Visit The Moorings Crisis Support website

Community Mental Health Services

Devon Partnership Trust provides a wide range of NHS services to people with mental health and learning disability needs in Devon.

To access information about local mental services, including adult and child mental health services, Autism, Early intervention in psychosis, Eating Disorders, Gender identity, the older peoples mental health services, learning disability, personality disorders, mental health in pregnant women and women who have just given birth.

Visit the Community Mental Health Services website

New Leaf

New Leaf is part of Devon Partnership NHS Trust’s Vocational Rehabilitation Service. The service has been developed from delivering many years of therapy, training and supported employment to adults living with a mental health condition who are working towards paid employment now or in the future.

Visit the New Leaf website

National Support

BBC Headroom

Mindful Tips
Mood Mixes
Personal Stories
Motivation

We know we can’t solve all your troubles, but we can give you tools to help.

Whether it is everyday tips, sounds to relax your mind, strategies to cope with parenting right now or films to get you talking, we are here to help you look after yourself and your loved ones.

Visit the BBC Headroom website

Saneline

SANEline is a national out-of-hours mental health helpline offering specialist emotional support, guidance and information to anyone affected by mental illness, including family, friends and carers

Our helpline is here to support you when you feel you have reached a moment of crisis. We know that moment of crisis is different for everybody – some people can reach that point daily, and for some people it is a rare occurrence.

Visit the Saneline website

Reading Well

Reading Well helps you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing using helpful reading. The books are chosen by health experts and people living with the conditions covered. People can be recommended a title by a health professional, or they can visit their local library and take a book out for free.

Visit the Reading Well website

Mind

Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

Visit the Mind website

Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness through a network of local groups and services, expert information and successful campaigning. The goal is to make sure everyone affected by severe mental illness has a good quality of life.

Visit the Rethink website

Anxiety UK

Anxiety UK was formed in 1970, by Katharine and Harold Fisher as a result of Katharine’s experience of agoraphobia and her desire to develop support for others similarly affected.

Visit the Anxiety UK website

Samaritans

Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Visit the Samaritans website

Combat Stress

Combat Stress is the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For a century, they’ve helped former servicemen and women with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Visit the Combat Stress website