Resources for Further Support: Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health

When accessing online resources and communities, it is important that children and young people are supervised, and are aware of online safety.

Online Support:

Apps:

  • MindShift CBT: highlights strategies to manage anxiety in different situations
  • Calm: Guided meditation and sleep stories to reduce stress and improve sleep
  • HeadSpace: advice on training your mind to be happier and healthier by reducing daily stresses

Books:

  • What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety – Dawn Huebner (2005) – Recommended for younger children
  • Depression: A Teen’s Guide to Survive and Thrive - Jacqueline Toner and Claire Freeland (2016)
  • Yes I Have Anxiety. Deal. With. It – Nicole Stephen (2020) – Recommended for teens
  • Stuff That Sucks – Ben Sedley (2017) – Recommended for younger children

Helplines:

  • 0300 123 3393 - Mind Infoline: talk about mental health difficulties, where to get help and treatment options
  • 116 123 – Samaritans: Confidential emotional support
  • 0800 111 – Childline: Confidential emotional support, specific for young people

Parent Support:

Resources for Further Support: Sleep

Online Resources:

Apps:

  • Headspace: sleep casts that guide you in visualising calming images to assist better sleep
  • Noisli: provides various sleep sounds from which you can make your perfect playlist
  • Calm: reads sleep stories – Great for children and adults
  • Spotify: free sleep sounds and music

Helpline:

  • 03303 530 541 – talk to trained sleep advisors using this National Sleep Helpline

Resources for Further Support: Behaviour Management

Online Resources:

Apps:

  • Famjam: help distribute and organise family chores while teaching children good habits and behaviours
  • Choiceworks: allows children to learn about good behaviour e.g. turn taking, managing emotions, and much more
  • Child reward: virtual reward chart (for multiple children) with different rewards for various tasks

Books for Parents:

  • The Whole brain Child – Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson (2011)
  • The Incredible Years – Carolyn Webster Stratton
  • Smart but scattered – Peg Dawson and Richard Guare

Books for Children:

  • Hands are not for hitting – Martine Agassi (1-4 years)
  • Swarm of Bees – Lemony Snicket (4-7 years)
  • Wordy Birdy – Tammi Sauer (3-7 years)

Helpline:

0808 800 2222 – Family Lives: gain advice about managing your child’s behaviour

Resources for Further Support: Self-Care

Online Resources:

Books:

  • Self-Care Activity Book for Kids (5+ years) – Nicola Harvey
  • Look and be Grateful (young children) – Tomie dePaola
  • Project You: More than 50 ways to calm down, de-stress and feel great (teenagers) – Aubre Andrus and Karen Bluth
  • Stop, breathe, chill (teenagers) – Beth Stebner
  • The Little Book of Self-Care (older teenagers) – Suzy Reading

Apps:

  • Think Ninja: help young people (10-18 years) understand self-care and emotional wellbeing
  • Amaha: makes self-care a priority with over 500 activities and journal writing
  • Finch: Self-care Widget Pet: introduces young children (4+ years) to self-care

Resources for Further Support: Self-harm

Online Support for Children and Young People:

Apps:

  • HarmLess: track your progress, calm urges, breathing exercises, journal and much more. All your information is kept private with a passcode.
  • I am: creates positive daily affirmations to remind you that you are enough.
  • Calm Harm: provides a comfortable space where you can express yourself and release your emotions in controlled activities, as well as become distracted from thoughts of self-harm by fun games and activities
  • DistrACT: Tips and ideas for safer alternatives to self-harm, as well as links to art, books and films

Helplines:

Parent Support:

If you have hurt yourself and need urgent support, or are worried you may act on suicidal
thoughts, please call 999 or come to hospital

Resources for Further Support: Disordered Eating

Online Support:

Apps:

  • Recovery Record: Eating Disorder Management: keep track of your progress, recovery goal, coping tactics and meal plans
  • MindShift CBT: anxiety based tool that helps you understand the relationship between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
  • Rise up + Recover: allows you to privately log meals, emotions and behaviours while reminding you to stay motivated

Books:

  • Body Kindness – Rebecca Scritchfield
  • Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat – Stephanie Covington Armstrong
  • Bulimia s*cks! – Kate Hudson-Hall (can buy in 3 pack with a personal workbook and food journal)

Helplines:

Parent Support:

Resources for Further Support: LGBTQIA+ Support

Online Resources:

Books:

  • Gender Identity Workbook for Teens – Andrew Maxwell Triska
  • Pink Is for Boys – Robb Pearlman (recommended for ages 2-4 years)
  • Rainbow Hands – Mamta Nainy & Jo Loring-Fisher (recommended for ages 5-7 years)
  • Be Who You Are – Jennifer Carr (recommended for ages 8-11 years)
  • The Art of Being Normal – Lisa Williamson (recommended for ages 12-14 years)
  • One in every crowd – Ivan E. Coyote (recommended for ages 15+ years)

Apps:

  • Refuge Restrooms: search for single stall and gender neutral bathrooms by location

Helplines:

Services for Young People:

Parent Support:

Resources for Further Support: Disability Support

Online Resources:

Books:

  • We Move Together – Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire & Eduardo Trejos (Recommended for children)
  • What Happened to You? – James Catchpole (Recommended for children)
  • I Talk Like a River – Jordan Scott & Sydney Smith (Recommended for children)
  • Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability – Shane Burcaw
  • Owning It: Stories about Teens with Disabilities – Donald R. Gallo (Recommended for teens)

Resources for Further Support: Tics & Tourette’s Syndrome

Online Resources:

Books:

  • Managing Tourette Syndrome: a Behavioural Intervention: Parent Workbook by Douglas Woods (2008)
  • Nix Your Tics!: Eliminate Unwanted Tic Symptoms: A How -To Guide for Young People By Uttom B. Duncan McKinlay (2015).
  • Why Do You Do That?: A Book about Tourette Syndrome for Children and Young People By Uttom Chowdhury, Mary Robertson (2006)
  • Tics and Tourette Syndrome: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals By Uttom Chowdhury (2004).
  • It's NOT All About Swearing!: A Practical Guide to Tourette's Syndrome for Parents in a Post-Pandemic World By Mandy Mae Barnett (2022).

Specialist Services:

Resources for Further Support: Autism

Online Resources:

Books

  • This Beach is Loud! – S. Cotterill (2-4 years old)
  • My Awesome Autism – N. Saunders (recommended for young children)
  • Since We’re Friends: An Autism Picture Book – C. Shally and D. Harrington (4-8 years old)
  • All My Stripes: A story for Children with Autism – S. Rudolph & D. Royer (5-8 years old)
  • Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes – J. Elder (8-12 years old)
  • Autism, the Invisible Cord: A Siblings Diary – B. Cain (12-15 years old)

Apps:

  • Autism iHelp – Sounds: helps integrate sound and sight
  • Visuals2Go: provides a way for non-verbal children to communicate
  • ABA Flash Cards & Games – Emotions: provides children with a fun and easy way to recognise and respond to 100 emotions

Services:

Parent Support:

Resources for Further Support: Racism

Online Resources:

Books:

  • Our Skin – Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli & Isabel Roxas (3-7 years old)
  • Don’t touch my hair! – Sharee Miller (3-7 years old)
  • Something Happened in Our Town: a child’s story about racial injustice – Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins & Ann Hazzard (5-10 years old)
  • The Proudest Blue: a story of Hijab and family – Ibtihaj Muhammad & S.K. Ali (Children)

Helplines:

Parent Support:

Local Free Youth Counselling and Mental Health Services: Berkshire

Number 22

*must be aged between 12-25 and live in Windsor, Maidenhead or Slough*

27 Church Street, Slough, SL1 1PL
Tel: 01628 636661
Email: info@number22.org

Self Referral Link: https://number22.org/enquiry-form/

Telephone support line, aged 11+, bookable 25- minute telephone appointment.
Link to book telephone appointment: https://number22.org/support22/

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAHMS)

*Must be age 0-17 and live in Berkshire*.

For more serious concerns about your child's mental health.

Tel: 0300 365 1234 (for non-urgent enquiries)

For urgent mental health concerns about a young person: Call the mental health access team on 0300 247 0000.

Link to Refer: https://forms.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/cypf/

For lower level mental health concerns, search for the Getting Help Team in Buckinghamshire, which can be accessed via Early Help.

Berkshire Talking Therapies

*must be aged 17+ and live in Berkshire*

Talking therapy for anxiety, low mood & stress.

Tel: 0300 365 2000
Email: talkingtherapies@berkshire.nhs.uk
Self Referral Link: https://gateway.mayden.co.uk/referral-v2/7c824928-ff62-4838-855e-80d1281dfb94

ARC Youth Counselling

*must be aged 11+ and live in Wokingham*

Counselling sessions face-to-face or online.

Tel: 0118 977 6710
Email: Office@arcweb.org.uk
Self Referral Link: https://arcweb.org.uk/get-in-touch/

Youthline

*Must be aged 12-25 and live in Bracknell Forest.*

Counselling sessions in person, online and by telephone.

Tel: 01344 311200
Email: ask@youthlineuk.com
Self Referral Link:https://www.youthlineuk.com/counselling-enquiry

Time to Talk

*Must be aged 11-25 and live in West Berkshire.*

Up to 12 free counselling sessions. Face-to-face, online or telephone sessions.

Broadway House, 4-8 The Broadway, Newbury, RG14 2BA

Tel: 01635 760 331
Email: office@t2twb.org
Self Referral Link: https://t2twb.counsel360.co.uk/referral/create

Local Free Youth Counselling and Mental Health Services: Buckinghamshire

Youth Concern

*must be aged between 13-25 and live in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire*

Offer 20 free counselling sessions face-to-face, by phone or virtual.

The Uptown Coffee Bar, Whitehill Lane, Aylesbury, HP19 8FL.

Tel: 01296 431183
Text or Whatsapp: 07470 833500
Email: admin@youthconcern.org.uk

Self Referral: You can ask for counselling by contacting Margaret: counselling@youthconcern.org.uk

Bucks Mind

*Must be aged 13-21 and live in Buckinghamshire*

Face-to-face and online appointments.

Tel: 01494 463364.                                                                                                                                Email: ypcounselling@bucksmind.org.uk
Referral Link: https://www.bucksmind.org.uk/young-peoples-counselling-referral-form/

Youth Enquiry Service (YES Wycombe)

*Must be aged between 13-35 and live in High Wycombe*

52 Frogmoor, High Wycombe, HP13 5DG
Tel: 01494 437373
Email: info@yeswycombe.org
Referral Link: https://yeswycombe.org/how-to-reach-us/ 

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAHMS)

*Must be age 0-17 and live in Buckinghamshire*.

For more serious concerns about your child's mental health.
Tel: 01865 901 951
Email: BucksCAMHSSPA@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Link to Refer: https://secureforms.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/camhs/Buckinghamshire.aspx

For lower level mental health concerns, search for the Getting Help Team in Buckinghamshire, which can be accessed via Early Help https://www.buckssafeguarding.org.uk/childrenpartnership/professionals/early-help/

Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies

*must be aged 17+ and live in Buckinghamshire*

Talking therapy for anxiety and depression.

Tel: 01865 901 600
Text: Text TALK and your name to - 07798 667 169
Self Referral Link: https://www.iaptportal.co.uk/ServiceUser/SelfReferralForm.aspx?sd=eb19256a1304-4192-bbc3-56aab5e1c7c6

Local Free Youth Counselling and Mental Health Services: Surrey and Northeast Hampshire

Mindworks Surrey

*Must be age 0-17 and live in Surrey or Northeast Hampshire*.

Emotional wellbeing and mental health service Early Support

Self-referral and lots of helpful resources at www.mindworks-surrey.org
Tel: 0300 222 5850

Community Mental Health Teams (CAMHS)

These services are for more serious concerns about your child's mental health. Referrals must be made by a professional.

Crisis line (6+ years): 0800 915 4644

Healthy Surrey Talking Therapies

*must be aged 17+ and registered with a GP in Surrey*

Talking therapy for anxiety and depression.

Centre for Psychology: www.centreforpsychology.co.uk
DHC Talking Therapies: www.dhctalkingtherapies.co.uk
IESO digital health: www.iesohealth.com/areas/surrey

Mind Matters: www.mindmattersnhs.co.uk
With you: www.wearewithyou.org.uk
A wealth of general health and wellbeing resources: www.healthysurrey.org.uk

Hampshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

*Must be aged between 8-18 and live in Hampshire, n.b. for Northeast Hampshire see Mindworks Surrey*

Support for a range of emotional and mental health difficulties

Tel: 02382 317 912
Email: hantscamhsspa@southernhealth.nhs.uk
Referral Link: www.portal.hampshirecamhs.nhs.uk

Talking Therapies Hampshire

*must be aged 16+ and registered with a GP in Hampshire*

Talking therapy for anxiety and depression.

Tel: 023 8038 3920
Email: info@italk.org.uk
Self Referral Link: www.italk.org.uk/self-referral/

Hampshire Youth Access

*must be aged between 5-17 (or 24 for care leavers and SEND) and live in Hampshire*

Counselling, mental health and emotional wellbeing advice and support.

Tel: 02382 147 755
Text: text 'HANTS' to 85258
Email: enquiries@hampshireyouthaccess.org.uk
Website: www.hampshireyouthaccess.org.uk

Free National Services

Emergency Services

If you feel like you may attempt suicide, have injured yourself, taken an overdose, or are worried about immediate safety
Call 999
Call the NHS on 111 and select option 2.
Contact your GP.
Call HOPELINEUK on 0800 068 4141
Call Samaritans on 116 123.
Text SHOUT to Shout's textline on 85258.

Mind

Website link: https://www.mind.org.uk/for-youngpeople/
Variety of resources and information regarding mental health and wellbeing for young people

Childline

Free confidential online service where you can talk about anything. Online resources for young people for a variety of struggles

Website link: www.childline.org.uk
Tel and online chats open 24/7
Tel: 0800 1111
Link to 1-to1 webchats with online counsellors
https://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/1-2-1-counsellor-chat/
Support aimed for children under 12: www.childline.org.uk/get-support/u12-landing/

Kooth

*For young people aged 11-25*
Free, anonymous online counselling, via a live chat service or messages.
Website link: https://www.kooth.com/
Link to sign up for support: https://www.kooth.com/signup/available-in-many-areas

Local Youth Support Services Berkshire Youth Support Service

*Youth clubs for those living in Berkshire*

Website link - https://www.berkshireyouth.co.uk/

Fleet Phoenix

*young people and families living in Hart district*

Music projects, youth clubs and mentoring projects, anxiety workshops, and community outreach programmes

Website link www.fleetphoenix.co.uk

Action4Youth

*For young people living in Buckinghamshire*

Youth groups
Website link - https://www.action4youth.org/youthgroups/

Local Early Help Services

Early Help Services are provided by local authorities to support families with any problems they may face. They can offer information and advice, and help families find solutions to specific problems.

Your referral through Early Help may be triaged to a Getting Help Team. They can provide quick, short-term support (around six to eight sessions) for children and young people with low to moderate mental health issues.

Early help Buckinghamshire

Website Link - https://www.buckssafeguarding.org.uk/childrenpartnership/professionals/early-help/
Email: familyinfo@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
Tel: 01296 383293
Link to Refer - https://familyinfo.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/advice-and-support/raise-a-concern/early-help/

Early Help West Berkshire

Website Link - https://www.westberks.gov.uk/ERH
Link to Refer - https://www.westberks.gov.uk/earlyresponse-hub-referral

Early Help Windsor & Maidenhead

Website Link - https://rbwm.afcinfo.org.uk/pages/localoffer/information-andadvice/socialcare/single-point-of-access-spa-and/earlyhelp-hub
Email: Safeguarding.Partnership@rbwm.gov.uk
Link to Refer - https://afcself.achieveservice.com/service/SPA_MASH_Referral_RBWM

Early Help Slough

Website Link - https://www.sloughchildrenfirst.co.uk/what-we-do/targeted-early-help/
For self-referrals call: 01753 875362
If you are a professional, please complete the Multi-Agency Referral Form (MARF)
and email it to sloughchildren.referrals@sloughchildrenfirst.co.uk

Early Help Bracknell Forest

Website Link - https://bracknellforest.fsd.org.uk/kb5/bracknell/directory/service.page?id=A4J3fsFMXBo&familychannel=0

Email: Early.Help@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Referral link: https://bracknellforest.fsd.org.uk/kb5/bracknell/directory/service.page?id=A4J3fsFMXBo&familychannel=1

Early Help Surrey

Website Link - www.surreycc.gov.uk/children/supportand-advice/young-people-and-theirfamilies/
early-help

Early Help Hampshire

Website Link - www.hants.gov.uk/socialcareandhealth/childrenandfamilies/early-help/

Healthier Together App

Please visit the Frimley Healthier Together Website to find lots of trustworthy and helpful mental health resources for both children/young people and their parents.

Healthier Together Website

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You can also access our own Mental Health Resource Packs here: https://frimley-healthiertogether.nhs.uk/professionals/physical-health-coping-packs-1/mental-health-coping-packs

https://frimley-healthiertogether.nhs.uk/mental-health

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About this information

Service:
Paediatrics

Reference:
P/108

Approval date:
20 August 2025

Review date:
1 August 2028

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