Mental health services and support for adults
Contents
- Contacting your GP and local NHS mental health services
- Apps and resources
- Armed forces
- Bereavement services
- Disability, learning difficulty and physical health services
- Drop-in services
- Eating disorder support
- Frontline workers
- Helplines, counselling and mental health support services
- LGBTQA+
- Substance and addiction services
- Support for long-term health conditions
- Support for males
- Support for older people
- Support for victims of crime and domestic abuse
- Support for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
Bereavement services
Cruse Bereavement Care
A service that helps people through one of the most painful times in life - with bereavement support, information and campaigning.
Call 0808 808 1677 or chat online to speak to a volunteer trained in all types of bereavement, to help you make sense of how you're feeling right now.
Visit the Cruse website for more information about this service.
First Hand
A website offering advice for anyone affected by witnessing a suicide, when they did not know the person who has died. This may be because you happened to be at a particular location, or because your job involves responding to these incidents.
Visit the First Hand website to view the available resources.
Help is at Hand
A resource for people bereaved through suicide or other unexplained death, and for those helping them.
Visit the Support After Suicide website to view the resource.
Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes was founded to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention. The charity offers an extensive range of support via telephone, virtual video and face to face. The service supports you, no matter when you were bereaved, where, how long since, or how you are connected to suicide.
Visit the Kelly's Heroes website to access the online referral form and for more information about the services available.
National Bereavement Service
A service that will source the help you need to deal with the practical elements of grief - whether that is finding a reliable funeral director or understanding more about the legal side of bereavement - and will provide emotional support to those who need extra comfort during this challenging time.
Visit the NBS website for more information about this service.
Northamptonshire Support After Suicide Service (N-SASS)
The free N-SASS service is delivered by Service Six, for people living anywhere in Northamptonshire of any age who has been bereaved or affected by suicide, making sure you have access to timely and appropriate support.
Visit the Service Six website for more information.
SOBS Helpline
A national helpline for those who have been bereaved or affected by suicide and would like to talk about their experience.
Call 0300 111 5065 between 9am and 7pm every day or email [email protected].
Visit the UKSobs website for more information about this service.
Suicide & co
A service to support bereaved individuals and open the conversation around suicide-related grief.
Call 0800 054 8400 between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday to speak to a counsellor. The counselling service offers up to 12 to access sessions of bereavement counselling, delivered online via video call or by telephone.
Visit the Suicide&co website for more information for this service.
Last updated 12 August 2025