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Support with your mental health

Local and national services that can support you

Overview

If you need someone to talk to about how you are feeling and get advice about local services that can help to support you, call locally on 01823 276892 or freephone 0800 138 1692. Our team at Mindline Somerset are here to support you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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If you feel your life is at risk right now due to suicidal thoughts or you have seriously harmed yourself, you need to get urgent medical help. Please call 999 for an ambulance or go straight to A&E. If you can’t do this by yourself, ask someone to help you.

Open Mental Health - Somerset’s Mental Health Alliance

Open Mental Health is an alliance of local voluntary organisations, the NHS and social care, Somerset Council, and individuals with lived experience of mental health. We are working together to improve the way people in Somerset receive support with their mental health by providing access to a number of specialist services including NHS support, housing advice, debt and employment advice, volunteering opportunities, community activities, peer support and local exercise groups. We want to ensure that people in Somerset get the right support when they need it most.

Local and National Support Services and Resources

Age UK Somerset Wellbeing Service

An independent local charity with the goal of enabling all older people in our area to live later life to the full. The Wellbeing Service encompasses Chat and Map, Friendly Phone Calls, Walk and Talk and Wellbeing Friends.

Citizens Advice Somerset

An independent charity providing free, confidential and impartial advice for people in Somerset.

Domestic Abuse Service

Somerset Council’s locally based confidential service, offering a range of specialist support to anyone who needs advice and help on domestic abuse.

Shout

If you struggle to pick up and ring to ask for help, you can contact Shout via text on the number below. Shout is a 24/7 text service, free on all major mobile networks, for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere. It’s a place to go if you’re struggling to cope and you need immediate help.

Shout will work with you to find ways to help you access the support you have in place as well as other forms of support available to you. They will also contact emergency services or social services if needed.

Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support (SARSAS)

Support for people of all genders aged 13+ affected by rape or any kind of sexual assault or abuse at any time in their lives.

Somerset Carers

You can receive support from Somerset Carers for free if are over 18 and you look after someone in an ‘unpaid’ caring capacity (not employed or self employed as a Carer).

Somerset Council Social Care

To report a child or an adult at risk.

Somerset Drug and Alcohol Service (SDAS)

Somerset Drug and Alcohol Service is your local, free, confidential, and non-judgemental service and supports anyone with issues involving drugs or alcohol, whatever the age of the person involved.

Somerset Foundation NHS Trust Mental Health Services

Our trust provides mental health services to all age ranges and supports people with a range of mental health problems whether they are mild, moderate or severe.

Somerset Suicide Bereavement Support Service

We support anyone aged 14+ in Somerset who has been affected by the death of someone through suicide, be that personally or professionally.

Somerset Village and Community Agents

A Village Agent can help you if you are over 18 years old and need help, support and advice on nearly anything.

Step Up Somerset

Step Up Somerset is a website that helps people in Somerset find skills training, employment support and local opportunities.

Support for families, children and young people’s mental health

Visit our children and young people’s website to find resources and support available for schools, frontline practitioners, parents, carers and anyone that works with or cares for children and young people in Somerset.

Website: Somerset Children and Young people health and wellbeing

Support for parents and carers

Being a parent can be the most wonderful job in the world but at some point all parents need a bit of help. Finding the right information and support can be difficult so, with the help of some Somerset parents and carers, we have identified the issues that most affect families and then gathered together the best web-based information and local support to help tackle some of these issues.

Website: Somerset Children and Young People – Parent and Carer toolkit

Last reviewed: March 9, 2026 by Adam

Next review due: September 9, 2026

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