Find out how to get support for your mental health.
Get support without seeing a GP.
You may get help sooner if you use the services below. You do not need to see a GP first.
Local Mental Health Services
- Surrey NHS Talking Therapies – one to one and group support for people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low/depressed or having trouble sleeping
- SCC Community Helpline – for financial, welfare and wellbeing support. Telephone: 0300 200 1008 (9am to 5pm, Mon. to Fri. excluding bank holidays) Textphone (via Text Relay): 18001 0300 200 1008 or SMS: 07860 053 465
- Community Connections – for one to one and group-based support, goal setting sessions, wellbeing activities and advice about financial issues affecting mental health
- Surrey Mental Health Crisis Helpline – for people experiencing a mental health crisis. Open 24 hours 7 days a week. Telephone: 0800 915 4644, SMS: 07717 989024
- Elderly Care mental Health services – To make a referral please email the Surrey Heath Single Point of Access at [email protected] and, if referral is urgent, the number to call is 01276539660
Talking therapies
Talking Therapies Surrey is a free NHS service offering short-term psychological therapies for a range of common mental health problems. There is no need to see a GP first.
The service is free for all patients aged 17+.
Talking Therapies can help with:
- feeling stressed and worried all the time
- trouble sleeping
- difficulty recovering from coronavirus (long-covid)
- feeling low and hopeless (including during or after pregnancy)
Get help using Talking Therapies
Surrey and Borders Mental Health services
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides general and crisis support services for people of all ages with mental ill-health in Surrey, including Eating Disorders, Early Intervention Psychosis and Perinatal.
Get support using Surrey and Borders Mental Health services
CBT support
You do not need to have a mental health issue in order to refer yourself for CBT therapy
Contact a talking therapies service – Find NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression – NHS
Drug and substance addition support
Surrey NHS service for drug and alcohol recovery
SUN – Personality Disorder support
SUN (Service User Network) is an easy-to-access community-based service for adults experiencing difficulties with complex emotions often associated with personality disorder. These emotions can affect how a person feels, copes with life and manages relationships.
SUN offers facilitated peer support groups for adults to share experiences and provide one another with help and advice. You do not need a diagnosis to attend. Groups are facilitated by a clinician and a facilitator with lived experience of mental health issues.
website: SUN (Service User Network) : Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Ieos
ieso is free and available to many NHS patients across the UK. It only takes a minute or two to check if typed cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is available to you.
If you need urgent help:
NHS urgent mental health helplines are for people of all ages. You can:
- get 24-hour advice and support – for you or someone else
- speak to a mental health professional
- get advice on the best way to get help
Find a local NHS urgent mental health helpline
In the event of a mental health crisis/ermergency the following support contacts are available.
Access And Advice (previously single point of access) 0300 222 57 55 open 8am-8pm monday to friday 9-12pm Sunday
The service is not open bankholidays
EMERGENCY DUTY TEAM( EDT) 01483 517898 for out of the above hours.
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS LINE for children and families 0800 915 4644
free to call 24/7 seven days a week.
Other organisations that could help you
There are a number of other NHS services and charity groups that work in our area.
- Surrey Information Point for Mental Health
- Shout
- Crisis Mental Health Helpline
- Seek help and advice using Samaritans
- Safe Havens
- Stayalive App
- Reason to stay – Suicide prevention help and support via like minded people. Each time the link is clicked a new letter, written anonymously by a stranger, appears and is a reminder that that person is not alone in how they are feeling. If you click on the link, you are also able to write your own letter to give hope to someone when they may need it most.
