Last updated:
7th February 2025
Local mental health help and support
If you are worried about your mental health there are plenty of ways to get help, as follows
- Mental Health Support Team: supporting children and young people with emerging, mild or moderate mental health difficulties
- Emotional Wellbeing Hub: free support and advice
- Sport in Mind: sport and games to support mental wellbeing for 10 - 14 year olds
- Search our community directory to find mental health services
- ARC: offers a free and confidential counselling service
- Find self-help books through the Read Well programme at your local library
- Samaritans: provide emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair
- Wokingham Young Carers Project: juggling all your responsibilities may be difficult, the young carers project offers carers the opportunity for a break
- Cranstoun Here4YOUth: Wokingham Borough Substance Misuse Recovery Service
- Sexual Health and sexuality services
Over 18
- Community Mental Health Team: for patients, carers, family members, GPs, NHS professionals and anyone else in Wokingham who has questions or concerns about a mental health related issue
- Rethink Mental Illness (Wokingham): provides a community support service, offering people with mental illness the support and help they need to regain confidence to engage in everyday activities
- Mental Health Advocacy: provides advocates who will support and represent another person in a variety of situations, in which they feel unable to represent their own interests
- Wellbeing in mind: courses for people age 19 Plus
- Mental health and wellbeing scheme: exercise referral scheme
- Wokingham Mental Health Association - drop in and befriending service,
- Samaritans: provide emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair
- Independent Advocacy: advocacy for anyone living in Wokingham who needs support to have their voice heard