Psychological Health
Drug & Alcohol Rehab in Bedfordshire
Do you remember your life without drugs and alcohol? Were you healthier and more optimistic about your future? Do you wish to return to this happier and healthier state of being?
Website: www.rehab4addiction.co.uk/country-wide/alcohol-rehab-bedfordshire
Mind
Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
Telephone: 03001 233393
Website: www.mind.org.uk
Mind Crisis Support
Open 365 days a year, 17:00-23:00 at Florence Ball House.
Drop-in to speak to a mental health professional face to face.
Website: www.mind-blmk.org.uk/crisis-support
Amicus Trust
A charity that supports and helped homeless people.
Telephone: 01234 358478
Email: info@amicustrust.org
Website: www.amicustrust.org
Head Meds
Information and advice about medications for mental health issues.
Website: www.headmeds.org.uk
Psychological Health Apps
Bedford Integrated Service
The integrated health centre offers a counselling service to anyone of any age.
Telephone: 07549 536770
Email: wendymeniru@gmail.com
Website: www.bedfordintegrativehealth.co.uk
Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service
The service offers a range of free and confidential talking therapies and specialist support to help you feel better.
Telephone: 01234 880400
Q-Youth Bedford
Support for 13-18 Year olds who identify as LGBTQ.
Email: qyouthbedford@qalliance.org.uk
Facebook: Q-Youth Bedford
Recovery College
The Recovery College is part of the Bedforshire and Luton Mental Health Academy. The educational workshops and courses they offer all focus on recovery and wellbeing. They are mainly designed and delivered in partnership with people with lived and professional experience, as co-production is a key element in their services.
Please read their current Prospectus, which lists all of the courses they are currently running and has information on how to join one.
Heads Up
Heads Up website offers online ‘check ups’, a toolkit of resources, case studies from local men and celebrities telling their stories, a section encouraging partner and friends to look out for their man and tips on how to stay well.
There are also links to local and national support and information groups.
Website: thisisheads-up.uk
Counselling Foundation
Offers 1:1 counselling for those who need it.
Telephone: 01234 346077
Email: bedford@counsellingfoundation.org
Website: www.counsellingfoundation.org
Road Victims Trust
The Road Victims Trust is a registered charity offering a range of free support services to residents of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire who have been affected by fatal road collisions.
Website: www.rvtrust.org.uk
King's Arms Project
Support for rough sleepers including outreach workers for communities.
Telephone: 01234 340544
Email: info@kingsarmsproject.org
Website: www.kingsarmsproject.org
Samaritans
Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Telephone: 116 123
Website: www.samaritans.org
Email: jo@samaritans.org
Young Minds
Support for children and young persons who are suffering from depression and anxiety.
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk
Are you struggling to cope?
RELATE Bedfordshire
Relate is the UK’s largest provider of relationship support. They are a local charity serving Bedfordshire and Luton.
Telephone: 01234 356350
Website: www.relatebedsandluton.org.uk
Elefriends
A supportive online community where you can get help with anxiety, stress and depression.
Website: www.elefriends.org.uk
Mayday Trust
Support and help for those suffering with addiction, homelessness and personal transitions.
Telephone: 01234 347061
Website: www.maydaytrust.org.uk
Bedford Counselling and Training
A charity that offers 1:1 counselling on a fee scale.
Telephone: 01234 219905
Email: enquiries@bcat-team.org.uk
Website: www.bcat-team.org.uk
Bedford Open Door
A counselling service for 13-17 year olds with mild to moderate depression.
Telephone: 01234 360388
Email: counselling@bedfordopendoor.org.uk
Website: www.bedfordopendoor.org.uk
Impact
Mental Health peer support.
Telephone: 01582 797596
Email: enquiries@impactmh.org.uk
Website: www.impactmh.org.uk
Just Turn Up
The ‘Just Turn Up’ programme is a localised project to help deliver affordable community based activities in and around the most deprived wards in the Borough of Bedford.
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk
Mindful Sport
Extra activities will be featured at a popular project in Bedford designed to help the public improve their wellbeing through physical activity.
Telephone: 01234 718825
Email: robert.lindsay@bedford.gov.uk
Website: www.elft.nhs.uk
CHUMS
A Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People.
Telephone: 01525 863924
Email: gill.kendall@chums.uk.com
Website: chums.uk.com
Faces
Support for families and children who are affected by domestic abuse.
Telephone: 01234 270601
Website: www.facesbedford.org
Path to Recovery
P2R is a one stop service which provides advice, treatment and support to people whose lives are affected by drug or alcohol use.
Website: www.elft.nhs.uk
Rethink
Rethink provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems.
Telephone: 03005 000927
Website: www.rethink.org
Email: info@rethink.org
Steady and Social
Stay active in later life with a gentle ta-chi class where you can also socialise with your peers.
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk
Support Line
Confidential emotional support for children, young people and adults.
Website: www.supportline.org.uk