Sydney Queer Muslims is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing social support, education and resources to individuals and families in NSW. The organisation is made up from a diverse range of volunteers, all united by the same faith.We aspire to support and advocate for people of diverse sexualities , genders and intersex status to reconcile their sexual identity with their faith.

Open Arms can provide individual, couple, and family counseling to help improve your resilience, as well as enhance your mental health and wellbeing

Open Arms – Veterans & Families Counselling is Australia’s leading provider of high-quality mental health assessment, clinical counseling, and support services for Australian veterans and their families, as well as some reservists and peacekeepers. Open Arms focuses on meeting client needs through a combination of proven clinical practices and new and emerging evidence-based approaches.

Blue Knot provides trauma specialist phone counseling and referrals, educational workshops for survivors and their supporters, training and therapeutic services for practitioners and workers, trauma-informed consultancy for services, evidence-informed publications, newsletters for survivors and practitioners, advocacy, research, and health promotion in the areas of complex trauma and trauma-informed care and practice. Blue Knot Helpline and Redress Support Service is a trauma specialist phone and webchat service for adult survivors of complex childhood trauma and their personal and professional supporters.

Bulk-billed and affordable online psychology. Fast and affordable mental healthcare in days not weeks. Find out if you’re eligible for our financial hardship support program.

Specialist counselling for newly bereaved adults (ie in past 2-3 years). Sessions up to 2 hours duration. Available in-person, online or on phone based on client need.

Depression Online provides information about depression and introduces skills and strategies that can help to identify the symptoms of depression, discover and challenge unhelpful thoughts as well as boosting wellbeing by making lifestyle changes.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

The 1800 011 511 Mental Health Line is NSW Health’s 24/7 statewide phone service which links people with NSW Health mental health services. It is a free service. It is staffed by trained mental health professionals who: offer mental health advice, complete a brief assessment, make, recommendations for appropriate care, including referral to NSW Health mental health services. The mental health professional will ask you questions to understand your needs and recommend appropriate services.

Lerning Links have a dedicated multidisciplinary team of child psychologists, speech pathologists, education specialists and early childhood professionals who offer a wide range of evidence-based, tailored services – both face-to-face and online – to help children to learn, develop and thrive.

They also have a number of programs that build the capacity of parents and carers to provide support in the home, and put strategies in place to manage your own mental health and wellbeing.

The e-PASS is a self-assessment asks questions about mental health and lifestyle factors. Based on responses, this tool provides a summary of the symptom’s individuals may be experiencing as well as suggestions for which Mental Health Online programs may be helpful. The e-PASS tool will provide alternate suggestions if an individual requires support beyond the Self Help and Therapist Assisted Programs offered by Mental Health Online.

Canteen provides a wide range of free support services to help young people impacted by cancer overcome the specific challenges they’re dealing with, including counselling and individual support.

Fast and affordable access to Mental Healthcare Services. Their goal is to deliver healthcare to patients on their terms, by allowing consultations to occur where and when it suits them. Also, their proprietary software facilitates secure video-based consultations and is deeply integrated into the Australian healthcare system, allowing them to deliver prescriptions, pathology requests, specialist referrals and secure provider to provider messaging.

‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ introduces you to five simple and effective ways to improve your psychological and emotional health that are based on extensive international research. The website gives you practical tools and resources so you can discover how to make the 5 Ways part of your ways to wellbeing.

The most recent and extensive research evidence suggests there are 5 main ways all individuals can play an active role towards improving and maintaining a sense of wellbeing:

Connect- Be Active – Keep Learning- Be Aware- Help Others

The team of in-house expert counsellors & psychologists help people deal with the impact of past events, build coping skills necessary to make changes, reduce the risk of further episodes of homelessness and abuse and move towards achieving their goals. The clinicians offer payment options including bulk billing, Victims services and NDIS for psychological assistance.

The Depression-Anxiety Program is designed to help manage one or more mental health issues or a range of symptoms at a time. The Depression-Anxiety Program offers online modules that can help understand the symptoms individuals may have been experiencing across a range of mental health concerns. It will teach strategies to improve wellbeing and mental health. The content aims to provide useful information and to introduce skills that can help manage symptoms and alleviate distress.

MensLine Australia offer free professional 24/7 telephone counselling support for men with concerns about mental health, anger management, family violence (using and experiencing), addiction, relationship, stress and wellbeing. MensLine Australia provide online counselling anywhere, anytime. This service provides real time online chat with a professional counsellor with focused sessions lasting for up to thirty minutes.

The Statewide Statewide Intellectual Disability Mental Health Outreach Service (SIDMHOS) is a specialist mental health service that supports the needs of people with a diagnosed mental health problem and cooccuring intellectual disability, currently receiving care, who need increased specialised support. Support is individualised, ranging from advice and problem solving local pathways through to collaborative case reviews and care planning with the treating team.

It is a free online and internet-based treatment course designed to help people understand anxiety and depression, and to learn effective skills to manage the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression are common and can have a very significant impact. It was developed because many people with depression and anxiety struggle to access effective treatment – for a range of reasons. But, many have access to the internet and can work through an online course.
The Wellbeing Course is what its called a transdiagnostic treatment Course – it is designed to treat multiple conditions and types of symptoms at the same time, whether it is stress and anxiety, general anxiety and worry, social anxiety, panic and panic attacks, low mood and depression.

BITE BACK is Black Dog Institute’s FREE, self-guided online wellbeing and resilience program for young people aged 13 – 16 years old. Evidence shows that using BITE BACK can decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety and increase wellbeing. A combination of fun, interactive activities, quizzes, animations and information across nine positive psychology domains including gratitude, optimism, flow, meaning, hope, mindfulness, character strengths, healthy lifestyles, and positive relationships.

The Older Persons Mental Health Service provides time limited care for older people who may require specialist mental health support, in collaboration with their GP. This includes people with severe behavioural problems associated with dementia. Usually this service is for people over 65 years of age. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may come to the service at a younger age.

Deadly Story is a cultural resource portal that aims to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people who are in out-of-home care, to grow in their knowledge of who they are and where they come from as well as support their growing connection to Culture, Country and Community.

Red Nose provides specialised bereavement support free of charge to any person affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a baby or child during pregnancy, birth, infancy or childhood. Services include counselling and support for miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, neonatal death, SIDS and sleeping accidents, and any other sudden death of a child up to 18 years. Red Nose is a national charity working to save little lives and support families impacted by the death of a baby or child.

Led by Amy from RewireMe, you will connect to a group of welcoming peers to learn skills and techniques from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you recognise and respond to low mood and anxiety in more constructive ways. It is a 6 week online program focused on on: understanding mood, anxiety and your mental health; thinking skills to tame your inner critic; thinking skills to improve your mood; actions you can take to ensure your environment works for you; helpful ways to communicate when you’re feeling down or anxious; and applying these practical skills to your everyday life.

B Miles Women´s Foundation helps women prevent or resolve homelessness through tailored support, and access to safe and affordable accommodation. This Foundation provides tailored, one-on-one support to women over 18 years old, without accompanying children, who are, or are at risk of, experiencing homelessness and living with mental ill-health.

Community based team that specialised in helping young people who are experiencing changes that could be called psychosis.

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds.
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them.

THIS WAY UP is a trusted Australian provider of evidence-based, internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) programs. As a not-for-profit and joint initiative of St Vincent’s Hospital and the University of New South Wales, their mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness by providing accessible online treatment for anxiety disorders and related mental health conditions.

The Older Persons Mental Health Service provides time limited care for older people who may require specialist mental health support, in collaboration with their GP. This includes people with severe behavioural problems associated with dementia. Usually this service is for people over 65 years of age. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may come to the service at a younger age.

Comprehensive Assessment Service for Psychosis and At Risk (CASPAR) is a service provided by SESLHD that provides in-reach into three local headspace centres (located at Bondi Junction, Hurstville, and Miranda) to deliver early identification, care coordination, assertive outreach, and targeted interventions to support the ‘missing middle’ youth population. Largely these are young people who have mental health and recovery needs greater than what can be met by headspace alone but do not require the level of care provided by state-based public mental health services.

The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement is one of four organisations funded by the Australian Government Department of Health to deliver a COVID-19 grief and trauma response package to the aged care sector: Phoenix Australia, Dementia Support Australia, and the Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN). Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement (ACGB) offers a range of supports for aged care residents, home care recipients, their families, friends, community workers and residential aged care staff and external organisations associated with aged care.

Provides free digital and telehealth services and ongoing tailored support to people over 18 years of age with complex mental health needs and their families and carers.

MumMoodBooster is Australia’s new evidence-based treatment for postnatal depression. MumMoodBooster is designed to help women anywhere in Australia who are experiencing depression after the birth of their baby (postnatal depression).

Their online treatment programs are based on best-practice psychological treatment. They are designed to deliver the benefits of face-to-face cognitive-behavioral treatment without needing to leave your home. These online treatments have been developed by the Parent-Infant Research Institute and have a strong evidence base.

Baby Steps aims to enhance the well-being of new mums and dads and support them in their transition to parenthood.

Baby Steps provides online resources for dads as well as mums, adjusting to life with your new baby is exciting, but also challenging.
Baby Steps was written for parents having their first baby, but can be used by anyone with a young baby who wants to learn more about caring for their baby or themselves.

Parent Line is a free telephone counselling and support service for parents and carers with children aged 0 to 18 who live in NSW. Parent Line receives calls from parents, carers and professionals who have questions or concerns about a child or young person. Our qualified and caring counsellors can help you whether you are caring for a baby, child or teenager.

A social and emotional wellbeing self-help app for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, that helps by showing you ways to manage your thoughts and feelings, as well as how to decide what is important in your life.

Kids Helpline is Australia’s only free (even from a mobile), confidential 24/7 online and phone counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25. Qualified counsellors at Kids Helpline are available via WebChat, phone or email anytime and for any reason.

Aboriginal Counselling Service provides Workforce Support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members. The supports and assistance available include critical incident debriefing, mediation, workplace counselling and mental health relapse prevention. Workforce support community have a lot of unresolved grief through Sorry Business so Aboriginal Counselling have first-hand knowledge and insight as to how this looks like for an Aboriginal worker or Aboriginal team.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

The Adolescent Community Mental Health Service is a specialised service for young people aged from 12 to 18 years who are experiencing mental health problems. The team offers acute assessments, support and counselling, and help with links to other specialist services.

The OCD Course is our free online and internet-delivered treatment course designed for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – that is, OCD. The OCD Course is designed to provide good information about OCD and to teach practical, proven, skills for reducing their symptoms and managing their OCD. It was developed because OCD has a significant impact on peoples’ lives but the symptoms often make it very difficult to seek treatment.

People with OCD often also find it difficult to access effective, evidence-based, treatment that works. Online or internet-delivered treatment for OCD is one approach to overcoming some of the barriers people experience and provides access to effective treatment.

Dementia Australia services are available to individuals, couples, families and groups, aged care and community care professionals. They also provide help and resources for people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Dementia Australia deliver services by telephone, or online, to people across Australia, depending on your needs or location. Dementia Australia offers free, confidential, professional counselling for individuals, families, couples and professional carers at all stages of a dementia journey. Counselling is important as it can help you understand what you, or someone you care about, is going through. It can be good to talk with a professional about your: emotional reactions – family and culture – living arrangements – dementia symptoms – changed behaviours. They can speak with you face-to-face, on the phone or via video conferencing.

Information, referral and counselling are provided to individuals and families where language or cultural issues make it difficult to access mainstream services. An individual may refer themselves or someone else (e.g. priest, doctor, service provider, family member or friend) can refer on their behalf, provided they have been given consent.

The issues for which information, referral and counselling is sought are varied and often complex because they compounded by cultural factors, the migration experience and history of the person. Counselling is provided to individuals, couples and families when they have identified an issue which is impacting negatively on their life or something they which to change and require support to deal with it more effectively.

A closed group environment for individuals seeking group support after the loss of a loved one. The purpose of this group is to support the health and wellbeing of participants who have lost a loved one by creating a safe space for participants to connect with people, share personal experiences and learn ways to cope and cultivate self-compassion to move through their grief and find hope after loss.

Comfort and support from those who can empathise. Support groups are facilitated by a qualified Griefline counsellor by integrating psychoeducation, evidence-based interventions and the personal experiences of the group to normalise grief, navigate emotional distress, reduce isolation and foster resilience.
The group program draws upon the emotional benefits of peer support, in conjunction with evidence-backed information to help reduce the stigma that can be associated with grief, and building an understanding that each person experiences grief in a different way.

Tresillian Nurses on the Parent’s Help Line offer trusted advice on concerns you may have around your baby, or your own emotional health, and they can advise on the best Tresillian service for your needs.

Tresillian also provides free confidential mental health assessment and support for parents with a child aged under 5 years. Counselling is available to families accessing one of Tresillian’s services in metropolitan Sydney, the ACT and regional sites across NSW.

The team will assist you to manage your emotional health and provide a safe reflective space to ensure a positive, secure relationship is developing between you and your infant.

It’s very common to feel overwhelmed and stressed during your partner’s pregnancy or when looking after a new baby, so it’s a good idea to have a conversation with a trusted person. Dads can often find help in spending time with other dads, chatting to friends, relatives or health professionals.
Often offloading and sharing fears and frustrations is all that is needed, and a good listener might be able to help you work through how you’re really feeling. Sometimes emotional and practical support is all that is needed. However, if you are worried at all about how you’re feeling, make an appointment with your GP as they will have the professional skills to support you or refer you to further help if necessary.

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Dokotela offers telehealth appointments with Psychiatrists. You see our specialists by a secure video conferencing platform. Some face to face appointments are also available in certain areas. The Dokotela platform facilitates access to mental health clinicians where and when you need them. Their clinicians are independent professionals with broad expertise. Psychiatrists are doctors that specialise in mental health. They make a thorough assessment based on a particular pattern of symptoms and can recommend suitable treatment for Depression and Anxiety, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Psychosis and schizophrenia, Eating disorders, Adolescent Psychiatry, ADHD. You will need a device with a camera, speaker, microphone and stable and secure internet connection.

CESPHN provides priority access to the PSS Suicide Prevention Service (SPS) initiative for individuals who are considered at increased risk following a suicide attempt, self-harm, or who have heightened suicidal ideation and who are best supported in the primary health care setting. The primary objective of the Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) will be to treat and support individuals at increased risk of suicide or self-harm at a critical point in their lives.

PSS SPS is not designed to support people who are acute and immediate risk of suicide or self-harm. Individuals at acute risk should be referred immediately to the relevant state or territory government acute mental health team (or equivalent).

Comprehensive Assessment Service for Psychosis and At Risk (CASPAR) is a service provided by SESLHD that provides in-reach into three local headspace centres (located at Bondi Junction, Hurstville, and Miranda) to deliver early identification, care coordination, assertive outreach, and targeted interventions to support the ‘missing middle’ youth population. Largely these are young people who have mental health and recovery needs greater than what can be met by headspace alone but do not require the level of care provided by state-based public mental health services.

The Therapist Assisted Program provides 12 weeks of therapist support via weekly emails and up to 4 live sessions via video or instant chat to help tailor the mental health online program material to an individual’s specific situation, answer questions and offer additional support.

myCompass has been developed by Black Dog Institute to help people better self-manage mild-to-moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. The program is freely available on any Internet-enabled device, including computers, tablets (e.g. iPads) and mobile phones.
myCompass delivers evidence-based psychological techniques via a range of online interactive activities recommended to the user based on their profile.Alternatively, they can select learning activities that most interest them. myCompass also allows users to track their thoughts, feelings and behaviours and provides graphical feedback to help them recognise unhelpful patterns and possible triggers.

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds.
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them.

Women Partners offers support with individual counselling and support groups to all women upon learning their partner has been sexually engaging with men. Women Partners offer a safe space for women to share their stories and perspectives whilst managing unexpected changes in their relationship.
The Women Partners program provides services including face to face, telephone and online Counselling, safe and non-judgemental support groups and workshops, as well as a range of information and resources.

Uniting’s team of therapists and mediators (Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners) are ready to support you from our office located between Museum and Town Hall stations. Services available from this office include: Individual, couple and family counselling ,Property mediation, Separation counselling , Child and youth counselling, and Groups supporting children and youth through the difficulties of separation.

PANDA – Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia – supports the mental health of parents and families during pregnancy and in their first year of parenthood. Perinatal mental health challenges are serious and can involve a lot of stigmas. It can affect up to one in five expecting or new mums and one in ten expecting or new dads.

PANDA’s vision is a world where perinatal mental health is understood and valued.

PANDA operates Australia’s only National Helpline for individuals and their families that provides access to counseling and information to assist with perinatal mental health issues.

This online program is for parents and caregivers of children aged 3 to 7 years, whose children are experiencing some form of worry, anxiety or fear. This program is designed to be a self-help intervention and is not monitored by professionals.

The BRAVE Program is an online program for the treatment of anxiety in young people. It was developed by a team of researchers from the University of Queensland, Griffith University, and the University of Southern Queensland, and has been specifically designed to teach young people the skills they need to reduce anxiety and cope with stressful situations.

• Get a better understanding of anxiety and fear and what can be done about it
• Know what to do when your child is anxious or upset
• A whole range of tools and strategies based on proven principles
• Australian program, university-developed by child psychologists
• You choose what works for you – adapt to suit your family, your values
• Videos and fun interactive learning on your phone, tablet or computer
• 24/7 online, at your place, at your pace

Community based team that specialised in helping young people who are experiencing changes that could be called psychosis.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

Drawing upon the latest evidence and nearly 25 years of clinical experience, the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement’s MyGrief app provides information, tools and resources to support bereaved people and also provides practical strategies for families and friends on how best to support someone in the midst of their bereavement. Every persons experience of bereavement is different. By answering a few questions, the app can provide you with a number of tailored strategies which best address your challenges in bereavement.
It is easy to use, convenient, confidential and provides bereament support.

The OCD STOP! program combines Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention therapy (ERPT) which is considered the most effective treatment for OCD. It provides information about OCD and introduces skills and strategies that can help to improve understanding of OCD, learn practical techniques to manage anxiety in OCD, discover ways to manage intrusive thoughts, be guided through exposure and how to manage responses.

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds.
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them.

National Resource Centre For Migrant Empowerment (NRCME) programs ensure multicultural children’s mental health is improved through various forms of activities, including engaging children in sporting activities and events. NRCME counsellors aim to identify the main causes of the mental illness issues, including the family structures.

It is a free online and internet-based treatment course designed to help people manage the impacts of neurological conditions on their mental health and day-to-day activities. It was developed because many people with neurological conditions experience significant difficulties with both their emotional wellbeing (e.g., stress, anxiety, low mood) and cognitive wellbeing (e.g., planning, memory, attention). But, many people have limited access to help for managing these difficulties.

The Wellbeing Neuro Course is designed to provide good information and teach practical skills for managing the impact of neurological conditions. However, different to other courses, it is carefully designed for people experiencing cognitive difficulties as a result of having a neurological condition – that is, difficulties with attention, memory, planning, etc.

The Adolescent Community Mental Health Service is a specialised service for young people aged from 12 to 18 years who are experiencing mental health problems. The team offers acute assessments, support and counselling, and help with links to other specialist services.

The  Anxiety and Worry Program is designed to help people understand the nature of anxiety and worry and to learn the skills and strategies that help manage anxiety and improve overall mental health and wellbeing.
This program is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and has been developed by psychologists and researchers from the National eTherapy Centre.

Find which FREE course suits you best. Every family’s different, so we make it easy to choose the parenting support that fits your situation. You choose when, where, and how you want to do Triple P!

Triple P recognises that every family is different, which is why Family Transitions Triple P Online can be personalised to suit different circumstances. The free online program supports parents and carers to:
• create a stable, reassuring environment for children
• reduce adverse effects and help them feel supported, reassured and secure
• help children and themselves to manage emotions and develop good coping skills
• handle challenging moments more calmly and confidently
• build effective communication and problem-solving skills to reduce conflict and co-parent more effectively
• adapt and evolve in their new family dynamic.