Mental health support

A listing of local and national services that can provide help and support to people experiencing mental health problems.

Children and young people

Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

Online resources, tips, activities and strategies for children, young people, parents and carers coping with anxiety and worries. 

Barnardo’s See Hear Respond – Support Hub

Online support, including advice and information, online counselling and a telephone helpline.

Bromley Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) 18 +  

Provides specialist community health services to people aged 18+ with learning disabilities, complex physical health needs, mental health care needs, epilepsy and those needing positive behavioural support. 

Bromley Y works in partnership with Bromley to provide a free support service for children, young people and their families. It promotes the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children, young people and families by enabling change, fostering resilience and helping them build healthy relationships.

Bromley Y have launched their new The Signpost texting service for children and young people aged 11+ . Text messages are responded to within 24 hours with helpful advice and support.

Watch the Signpost video for more information

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) work with children and young people up to the age of 18 in Bromley. 

Bromley specialist community CAMHS (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust) provides specialist mental health consultation, assessment and treatment to children and young people aged 0-18 with severe and enduring emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties, and their families/carers. Referrals to CAMHS are through Bromley Y.

BullyingUK 

Find out how you can deal with bullying - including bullying at school or work, cyberbullying, or general advice on bullying. 

ChildLine

Information on an issues including anxiety, family relationships, and self-harm. 

Kooth

Offers an online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people up to the age of 25 aimed at supporting young people, care leavers, children with SEND, youth offending. Accessible through mobile, tablet and desktop and free to use. If you’re a parent looking for more information about Kooth, please email parents@xenzone.com

YoungMinds

Information for young people and children about mental health and emotional wellbeing, and links to some services. 

Parents and carers

Parenting or caring for a child or young person can be tough. It's important to make sure you look after your own mental wellbeing. Remember you’re not alone.

The Bromley mental health and wellbeing toolkit (this document is not accessible to people using screen readers) has been developed as a comprehensive local resource for parents and professionals.

Bromley Well mental health and wellbeing service 

Bromley Well mental health and wellbeing service provides information and advice on appropriate local services and therapies and how to successfully access them.

Navigate is a national mentoring service that provides individual one-to-one emotional support for parents of disabled children up to 18 years, who are on a pathway to diagnosis or have received a diagnosis in the last year. Parents can find out more on the Scope website or by calling 0808 801 0510

Bromley Y calendar of events provides dates and details for a series of webinars all bookable online.

This dedicated NHS website is here to supporting you with tips, techniques and resources during times when you have feelings of sadness or stress or are having negative emotions that are having a significant impact on your quality of life, affecting your relationships or your ability to learn.

NHS Choices

Offers mental health services free on the NHS;  Find out more about the mental health support services available to you on their website.

NHS – Every Mind Matters 

Offers tips for supporting children and young people with their return to school, encouraging their interests, managing their emotions or behaviour and getting them to talk about how they feel.

SLAM

Advice and support for carers. SLAM families under pressure provides simple tips and tricks, formulated by researchers and NHS mental health experts at the SE London Maudsley Trust.

Qwell 

A service commissioned by the NHS in South East London that provides a free, anonymous online counselling and emotional wellbeing service for adults 26 years and older. 

Talk Together Bromley 

Offers free and confidential talking therapies and support for adults over the age of 18 in Bromley and who are registered with a Bromley GP. You can refer yourself by either by calling 0300 003 3000 or completing their online self-referral form.

The Mix 

Offers essential support for parents under 25 years old. They provide help for you to take on any challenge you are facing – from problems with mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break ups to drugs. Contact is through their website or their free confidential help line 0808 808 4994

Young Minds Parents Helpline - is available to offer advice to parents and carers worried about a child or young person under 25. For free confidential help call: 0808 8025544

Need more help?

The information, advice and support service (IASS) provides confidential and impartial advice and information to support parents or carers and children and young people who have, or may have, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) aged 0 – 25.