Support Services
Chanhe Mental Health
- Run resource centres in Alness, Golspie and Fort William to provide a safe and non-judgemental space where people can build skills, improve their confidence and socialise to help their mental health and wellbeing.
- Support people in hard-to-reach areas across Highland through outreach support that helps them self-manage their situation to a point where they’re most comfortable.
- Develop strategies for carers by offering one-to-one emotional support and access to peer support through Carer Support.
- Work with 29 GPs across Highland to improve the mental health of people experiencing stressors in their lives by using social prescribing to refer people to relevant support in their area through the Community Link Worker project.
- Support anyone bereaved by suicide in Highland and Argyll & Bute through the Suicide Bereavement Support service.
- Offer brief intervention for people experiencing mental distress through the Distress Brief Intervention programme.
Telephone: 01463 710 963 Email: info@changemh.org
SAMH Time for You is an online wellbeing support service for anyone experiencing mild to moderate emotional or mental health difficulties aged 16 and over and living in Scotland.
Wellbeing Coaching
One-to-one support from a SAMH Wellbeing Practitioner using evidence-based mental wellbeing coaching to increase awareness and develop tools, skills and strategies to achieve personal goals with your mental wellbeing.
Talking Therapy
Talking Therapy with a student PhD Psychologist (Glasgow Caledonian University, PHD Programme) using a therapeutic approach such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or Person-Centred Therapy (PCT) to target mental health concerns.
Time for You Wellbeing Coaching and Talking Therapy services offer up to 8 sessions over phone call or videocall.
Re-engage bring older people together into social groups at a time in their lives when their social circles are diminishing.
Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland (CBCS) exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people in Scotland. They seek to help anyone experiencing bereavement to understand their grief and cope with their loss.
AbilityNet's IT provides free IT support to older people and people with disabilities of any age. Their volunteers can support people located anywhere in the UK and can help with all sorts of IT (information technology) challenges, from setting up new equipment, fixing technical issues, showing you how to stay connected to family and use online services.
“We live in a time where to have a life crammed to the hilt is considered a success story. But with all this pressure, so many of us have nowhere to go to meet and talk about it. Frazzled Cafe is about people coming together to share their stories, calmly sitting together, stating their case and feeling validated as a result. Feeling heard, to me, has always been half the cure.”
— Ruby Wax, OBE
James Support Group are starting up bereaved through suicide support groups in Thurso, Nairn, Dingwall, Aviemore and Invergordon, as well as their group in Inverness. These groups will run once per month – Information via their website.
Highland Hospice Adult Bereavement Services are now available to all those bereaved by the death of a family member or friend.
Enquiries can be made to Ruth Foster, Bereavement Officer, on 07709 717586 or email bereavement@highlandhospice.org.uk.
The National Charity for the elderly, the terminally ill and their pets.
A network of 17,000 volunteers “hold hands” with owners to provide vital loving care for their pets. They keep them together – for example, walk a dog every day for a housebound owner, foster pets when owners need hospital care, fetch the cat food, or even clean out the bird cage, etc.
Highland Hospice aims to support people, their families and carers, living with an advancing, life shortening illness in the Highlands to live the best possible life and to prepare for and experience the best possible death. By managing pain and other physical symptoms, they help make time and space for reflection, for gaining perspective and for achieving a measure of calm and tranquillity.
Citizens Advice Consumer Service offers advice over the phone or email, and through the self-help website.
