• Mental wellbeing support
• Loneliness
• Self-esteem
• Self-harm and suicidal thoughts
• Wellbeing workshops

Mental wellbeing support

Bristol based organisations

• VitaMinds
  Free mental health support from the NHS, offering evidence-based talking therapies as well as advice and guidance on community services.
• Nilaari: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic counselling
  Nilaari offers therapies for people experiencing a range of issues, including stress, worry, general anxiety, and low self-esteem and confidence.

Online support

• Headspace
  Headspace is an app that teaches you how to meditate. Free two-week trial available. Free to students with a Spotify Premium account.
• SAM App
  Manage your anxiety through self-help exercises and private reflection.
• Togetherall
• A safe space where you can share and get help from others like you with everything from everyday stresses to major life events. Use your University of Bristol email address to access the app for free; follow the instructions for an 'Organisation'.
• Talk Campus
  Share your worries and feelings any time of day or night with students from all over the world using our TalkCampus app. Use your University of Bristol email address to access the app for free.
• Your Amazing Mind podcast: Anxiety
  Brian's story and how accepting he had a problem was the first stage on his journey to getting help with anxiety.
• Your Amazing Mind podcast: Depression
  Ellie's story about her difficult and emotive experience of how she experiences depression.

Student-led support

• Bristol SU Wellbeing Network
  Brings together student groups and societies focused on promoting wellbeing through their events and activities. It's a great way to make friends and build your support network.
• Students Against Depression
  Peer advice, information, guidance and resources to those affected by low mood, depression and suicidal thinking.
• Nightline
  Bristol Nightline offers a confidential, impartial and non-advisory listening and information service.

Loneliness

• About loneliness
  Explores the causes of loneliness and explains how  it relates to mental health problems. Gives practical tips to help manage feelings of loneliness, and other places you can go for support.
• Student Space: Friendships and social life
  Tips for making friends and building a social life through the pandemic.

Self-esteem

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
  Self-help resources for mental health problems.
• The Resilience Lab
  Peer-led workshops in Bristol to help you improve and build your resilience. Run by Off The Record, a mental health charity for young people aged 11-25.

Self-harm and suicidal thoughts

• Bristol Mental Health Crisis Support
  24-hour contact information if you or someone else is experiencing a mental health crisis.
• Stay Alive
  This app has useful information and tools to help you stay safe in crisis. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else.
• Calm Harm
  The Calm Harm app provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm.
• SHOUT
  Text 'Shout' to 85258 to receive support when in crisis from a trained volunteer. They can help with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, relationship problems, bullying or if you're feeling overwhelmed.
• Self-injury Support
  Online and telephone support services for women and girls affected by self-injury, trauma and abuse.

If you need urgent mental health help, use our emergency contacts.

Wellbeing workshops