Block - Common - Medications advice & Telephone counselling

Telephone counselling & helplines

Phone: 1300 22 4636 (24 hour service)
For the cost of a local call, the beyondblue info line provides callers with access to information and referral to relevant services for depression and anxiety related matters (not a counselling service).

Phone: 1800 55 1800 (24 hour service)
Website: www.kidshelp.com.au
Provides specialised help for young people aged 5 to 25 years, and is staffed by professional counsellors. Daily web-counselling available (see website for current times) and email counselling (not for crisis).

Phone: 13 11 14 (24 hour service)
Website: www.lifeline.org.au
Volunteers with professional support, trained in responding to callers concerned about suicide. Provides general counselling and referrals to services in caller's local community. Calls to Lifeline from a landline are usually the cost of a local call, and calls from mobile phones are free of charge.

Phone: 1300 78 99 78 (24 hour service)
Website: www.mensline.org.au/
Provided by professional staff. The website also includes moderated forums with specific spaces for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Vietnamese and Arabic men, rural men, partners/children.

Phone: 1300 726 306
Email: info@panda.org.au
Website: www.panda.org.au
Provides support and information to women and families affected by post and antenatal depression.

Phone: 1800 18 SANE (1800 18 7263)
Website: www.sane.org/get-help
Provides information and referral for callers concerned about mental illness anywhere in Australia (not a counselling service).

Phone: 1300 659 467 (24 hour service)
Website: www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au
The Suicide Call Back Service provides crisis counselling to people at risk of suicide, carers for someone who is suicidal and those bereaved by suicide, 24 hours per day 7 days a week across Australia. People who are not linked in with current professional support can also access up to six sessions of ongoing counselling with the same counsellor at times scheduled to suit you.

Phone: 1800 011 046
Website: www.openarms.gov.au
Open Arms provides counselling and group programs to Australian veterans and peacekeepers and their families and is run by qualified psychologists or social workers. Visit the website for more information about mental health and online resources.