Useful links
The Students' Health Service is just one of a range of free services available to students. You may also wish to find out about others by going to the Student Services website.
The Counselling Service is a free, confidential service and also has a range of self help material including leaflets and reference books on various aspects of psychological health and wellbeing.
The Disability Services provide advice, guidance and support to disabled students. This includes but is not limited to students with Asperger's Syndrome, Specific Learning Difficulties such as dyslexia, sensory impairments, mobility difficulties and long term health and mental health conditions.
The Multifaith Chaplaincy offers confidential support to all members of the University - staff and students - regardless of faith or outlook.
The Students' Union provides a range of helpful leaflets on various relevant topics; or you can visit their Just Ask Centre where you can find information and advice on a wide range of issues.
There are also numerous free, non-university resources available:
Alcohol and Drugs
- Advice and Counselling on Alcohol and Drugs Tel: 0117 929 3028
- Al-Anon Tel: 020 7403 0888
Provides support to anyone whose life is, or has been, affected by someone else's drinking, regardless of whether that person is still drinking or not
- Alcoholics Anonymous Tel: 0845 769 7555
Offers support and help to recover from alcoholism
- BDP (Bristol Drugs Project) Tel: 0117 987 6000
Helps people gain independence from drugs and alcohol
- Bristol & District Tranquilliser Project Tel: 0117 9628874
Help with involuntary addiction to prescribed medication
Bereavement
Carers
- Eighteen+ Tel: 0117 939 2562
Support for unpaid family carers aged 18-25
Counselling/Talking Therapies
- Bristol MindLine Tel: 0808 808 0330
Offers a free listening service to anyone who needs to talk
- Off the Record Tel: 0808 808 9120
Offers people aged up to 25 free, confidential counselling and support
- LIFT Psychology Tel: 0117 982 3209 http://www.lift.awp.nhs.uk
Confidential psychological therapies service for people experiencing a variety of problems, including anxiety,depression, relationship difficulties, bereavement etc. You can self-refer to this service
- The Samaritans Tel: 0117 983 1000 or 08457 909090
Confidential emotional support 24 hours a day
- Triumph over Phobia Tel: 01225 422705
Helps sufferers of phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and other related anxiety to overcome their fears and become ex-sufferers
Eating Issues
Mental Health
- BPDWorld Tel: 0870 005 6787 or 0870 005 3273
Offers support to people suffering from borderline personality disorder
- Bipolar UK Tel: 020 7931 6480
Supports people affected by bipolar
- Changes Bristol
Provides support groups for those In mental distress.
Mental Wellbeing/Positive Psychology
- Artshine Tel: 0117 984 1684
Promotes wellbeing, community engagement and positive mental health through art projects
- Light Box An innovative approach to mental health issues
Self Harm
- Bristol Crisis Service for Women (TESS) Tel: 07788142 999
Supports girls and women in emotional distress, particularly those who harm themselves (often called self-injury)
- Self Injury Support Group held every Monday 6-7.30pm Tel. 0117 9279600 for more information
- The Samaritans Tel: 0117 983 1000 or 08457 909090
Confidential emotional support 24 hours a day
Trauma/Assault Support
- The Bridge Tel: 0117 342 6999
Support for victims of rape and sexual assault
- The Green House (formerly Avon Sexual Abuse Centre) Tel:0117 935 1707
Specialist counselling for people aged 18 and over who have ever experienced sexual abuse, rape or any kind of sexual trauma
- Bristol Domestic Abuse Forum Tel: 0117 914 2232
Support and advice for victims and survivors of domestic violence and abuse
- Kynergy Tel: 0117 9087712
A free confidential counselling service for survivors of sexual abuse and rape
- Rape Crisis Tel: 0117 929 8868
Specialist support service for women and girls in Bristol and the surrounding areas, who have experienced any form of sexual violence, at any point in their lives
- Hidden Marks
This website is for women students who have experienced (or who know someone who has experienced) rape and sexual assault or domestic violence/abuse.
- Bristol domestic abuse forum - Women's groupwork programme
The Freedom Programme is open to any woman who wishes to learn more about the reality of domestic abuse, whether she is in or has left an abusive relationship, including women who have no plan to leave their partner.
Women's Services
- Next Link Tel: 0117 925 0680
Provides specialist domestic abuse services for women and children in Bristol, especially dealing with refugees
- Womankind Tel: 0117 916 6460 or 0845 458 2914
Women's Counselling and Therapy Centre supporting women with mental health needs
General
- Patient UK Useful information leaflets
- NHS 111 Tel: 111
Medical advice 24 hours a day
- Changing Faces Tel: 0207 391 9270
Support and information for people with disfigurements to the face, hands or body, and their families
- Well Aware
A local website that gives up-to-date information on the wide range of community resources available