Mental Health
MIND
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. Their website contains a wealth of fact sheets on a broad range of topics, including an excellent “How to…” and “Understanding…” series.
Centre for Clinical Interventions
This Australian website provides valuable self-help resources on a number of topics including depression, anxiety, self-esteem, perfectionism and procrastination.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom. This site provides a series of helpful leaflets for the general public on common mental health issues: Anorexia and Bulimia; Bereavement; Depression; Sleep Problems; Memory Problems; Anxiety and Phobias; Schizophrenia; Stress; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
This is the UK’s students mental health charity with many useful resources and support.
Mind Forward Alliance is a collaborative venture founded by City businesses, aiming to create a culture of good mental health for City workers, share best practice and increase mental health understanding.
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is an organisation which trains employees to identify common symptoms and learn how to act upon them.
Heads Together
Heads Together is a mental health initiative spearheaded by The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales, which combines a campaign to tackle stigma and change the conversation on mental health with fundraising for a series of innovative new mental health services.
MQ
Mental Health Research charity helping raise awareness and understanding of mental health.
Guide to Trauma in Adolescence
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, has written a comprehensive guide to dealing with trauma and the consequences of it within pupils. It is written by Professor of Psychiatry at KCL – Andrea Danese and Dr. Patrick Smith.
Men’s Mental Health
Campaign against Living Miserably
The Campaign Against Living Miserably offer a helpline for men in the UK who are down, or have hit a wall for any reason, who need to talk or find information and support.
Women’s Mental Health
Wish
Women’s mental health charity with resources and support.
Maternal Mental Health Alliance
Helps women across the UK get consistent, accessible and quality care and support for their mental health during pregnancy and in the year after giving birth.
Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House
A women’s mental health crisis centre and residential stay in a domestic setting, as an alternative to acute admission.
Women’s Therapy Centre
Provides therapy for women for a range of areas.
National Domestic Violence Help Line
The Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline is a national service for women experiencing domestic violence, their family, friends, colleagues and others calling on their behalf.
Drugs and Alcohol Dependancy
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Frank
Frank helps you find out everything you might want to know about drugs. For friendly, confidential advice, Talk to FRANK.
Suicide Prevention
The Listening Place
This is a charity for people who feel that life is no longer worth living and have suicidal thoughts or plans. They offer face to face 50 minute appointments every fortnight where people can talk about their feelings without judgement or advice to a volunteer. It is based in Pimlico.
Samaritans
The Samaritans is a UK charity which exists to provide confidential non judgmental emotional support to anyone who is experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
The Samaritans can be contacted on Freephone 116 123 at any time, including over Christmas and the New Year when they offer a 24-hour phone service.
Referral Services for Mental Health
Counselling Directory
Directory of counsellors and psychotherapists
BACP
Directory of counsellors and psychotherapists
Welldoing
Directory of counsellors and psychotherapists
British Psychological Society
Directory of psychologists
The CBT Online Register
Directory of CBT therapists
Videos and Podcasts
How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek
Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are – Amy Cuddy
My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse – Tim Ferriss
The Anti Diet – Evelyn Tribole
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator – Tim Urban
The Surprising Truth about what Motivates us – Dan Pink
Books
Mental Health
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – Gabor Mate
Autism in Adults – Dr Luke Beardon
The Examined Life – Stephen Grozs
Why Love Matters – Sue Gerhardt
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure – Robert De Board
In Therapy: How Conversations with Therapists Really Work – Susie Orbach
Love’s Executioner – Irvin. D. Yalom
The Course of Love and Essays in Love – Alain de Botton
A Grief Observed – C. S. Lewis
This Too Will Pass – Julia Samuels
Why do People get Ill? – Darian Leader
The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt
Happiness Hypothesis – Jonathan Haidt
Internal Family Systems Therapy – Richard Schwartz
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel Van Der Kolk
Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig
The Kindness Method – Shahroo Izadi
Why we Sleep – Matthew Walker
Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach
Emotional Intelligence
The Stress Proof Brain – Melanie Greenberg
Difficult Conversations – Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
The Inner Game of Tennis – Timothy Gallwey
Daring Greatly – Brene Brown
Grit – Angela Duckworth
The Brain: The Story of You – David Eagleman
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons we do what we do – John Bargh
What Colour is my Parachute? – Richard N Bolles
Thinking, Fast and Slow – David Kahneman
The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis
The Brain at Work – David Rock
Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ – Daniel Goleman
The Unconscious at Work – Anton Obholzer
Quiet – Susan Cain
How to Win Friends and Influence – Dale Carnegie
Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher
Managing Time, Impact and Productivity
Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman
The Productivity Project – Chris Bailey
Atomic Habits – James Clear
The Power of Habits – Charles Duhigg
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E Frankl
The Four Day Week – Tim Ferriss
Leadership
Saying No: The Importance of Setting Boundaries – Asha Phillips
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership – Jim Dethmer
The Unfinished Project – Lorenzo C Simpson
The Great CEO Within – Matt Mochary