Togetherall
Provide safe anonymous support to anyone struggling with common health issues.
www.togetherall.com
Via a smartphone app members can talk to each other anonymously and share experiences and follow guided self-help courses and topics such as managing anxiety, dealing with alcohol, getting better sleep. Tests and guides to improve wellbeing and trained counsellors are on hand at all times to moderate the service and provide support.
Op COURAGE: The Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
This is the new name for:
- The Veterans’ Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS)
- The Veterans’ Mental Health Complex Treatment Service (CTS)
- The Veterans’ Mental Health High Intensity Service (HIS)
To contact the MIDLANDS or EAST of England service directly, call 0300 323 0137 or email: mevs.mhm@nhs.net
More details around this service can be found at:
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/armed-forces-and-veterans-healthcare/veterans-nhs-mental-health-services/
Contact information for all Op COURAGE centres
Combat Stress/Rethink
Emotional support, a listening ear and signposting service
helpline@combatstress.org.uk
24 hour Freephone Helpline 0800 138 1619
Help for Heroes Recovery College
They offer educational courses about mental health and recovery which are designed to increase students' knowledge and skills and to help them feel more confident in self-management of their own mental health and well-being. Help for Heroes have opened one that is specifically for veterans suffering these issues.
To access these courses you ideally need to be referred to a H4H case worker. Someone can approach H4H direct, but there is an aspiration to be able to referred through other mechanisms such as a ‘social prescriber’ at a GP surgery
https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/get-support/recovery-college/self-help-guides-to-recovery/
Headfit
IMO Headfit is a really useful website for giving you some tips and ideas on how to improve your mental resilience, aimed at the serving soldiers but more than suitable for everyone
https://headfit.org/home/
All Call Signs
All Call Signs is an award-winning peer support organisation for veterans and serving military personnel. Our chat app is manned by over 700 volunteer listeners with experience of life in uniform and our digital caseworkers bridge the gaps in veteran’s mental health services for hundreds of users seeking help.
https://allcallsigns.org/
Call 023 9438 7914
Salute Her UK
For women veterans who are survivors of military sexual trauma and their families.
Salute Her UK provides a support service which offers mental health therapy and interventions for women survivors of military sexual trauma in a single sex environment.
Walk Talk Action
Provide signposting, retreats and programmes to people in Stoke on Trent & beyond in order to help those with: Depression (including postnatal depression), Anxiety, Midlife crisis, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Isolation/Loneliness and/or are a Veteran; As well as general health and well-being. The charity organises regular walks, offers a ten week programme to suit each persons’ individual needs; through walking, talking and taking action. Every Friday (1300 – 1430) at St Claire’s Church Centre in Meir Park, Stoke on Trent ST3 7TW there is a professional and community drop in where you are invited to come along and meet other people and organisations within the area.
Website: www.walktalkaction.co.uk
Phone: 07804577783
Email: info@walktalkaction.co.uk
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Our Hidden Wounds service
Provides free and confidential psychological wellbeing advice and support to eligible veterans and their families. We offer a clinical assessment to help identify the most appropriate treatment plan, followed by a range of evidence-based psychological therapies tailored to individual needs.
Sessions are run by a qualified psychological wellbeing therapist and include access to self-guided support and one to one and group therapy sessions.
Website: Hidden Wounds Service | Help for Heroes