Mental health support in Leeds
What do you need?
Is your life or someone else’s in immediate danger?
Call 999.
Is it less urgent than 999 but you need help or advice now?
Call 111.
Are you are looking for mental health support in Leeds for yourself, or are you concerned about someone else?
A Mental Health Helpline [Freephone] 0800 183 0558 operates 24 hours a day to help all adults registered with a GP Practice in Leeds.
NHS webpages Mental health services and Where to get urgent help for mental health wi guide you to information about mental health, how to access local NHS services and national helplines for charities such as Samaritans and Childline.
MindWell Leeds is a mental health information source and support directory for everyone in Leeds. It is funded by the NHS and lists local Mental Health charities and services including Peer Support Plus CIO.
If practical or emotional problems are stopping you feeling your best then Linking Leeds can help you get them sorted.
The Leeds Directory published by Leeds City Council, lists a vast range of legitimate services from Plumbers to Taxis and Mental Health services such as Peer Support Plus CIO.
Hub of Hope is a directory to major national and smaller, specialised and local mental health charities and services including Peer Support Plus CIO.
Do you want to take responsibility for your mental health and learn to better manage it?
Peer Support Plus offers FREE, weekly, two-hour, Peer-facilitated Support Groups. Safe, kind, supportive, confidential meetings where you can learn by listening to others’ lived experiences and, when you feel ready, relating yours to people who are not part of your everyday life.
All our trained Peer-facilitators are volunteers with lived experience of managing their own mental health.
Participants sign up to a set of aspirations we call Guidelines for Behaviour – treating everyone kindly, equally and non-judgementally, respecting confidences, keeping us all safe.
Typically, each week, four participants will take time to talk about some difficult feelings they have experienced, and listen to others describe how they dealt with similar feelings.
You can talk about the issues affecting your mental health week after week until you feel they are managed or resolved. Participation is open-ended so you can attend one of our Support Groups for as long as you feel the benefit. It’s okay to leave and its okay to come back.
We meet in-person at Little London Community Centre LS7 1HF on Wednesday afternoons from 13.00 to 15.00; or online by Zoom on Tuesday evenings from 18.30 to 20.30. We have internet-connected tablets to loan so that nobody is excluded from participating by Zoom from a private space.
Our meetings are not drop-ins. If you think a Peer Support Group might help, and you are an adult who lives, works or studies in the Leeds Metropolitan District, please Contact us to learn more and book a seat at one of our monthly two-hour, in person or by Zoom, Introduction to Peer Support workshops.
Peer Support Plus CIO Trustees
Peer Support Plus helped us learn to better manage our mental health. We know from our own lived experiences that the tools, techniques and successful behaviours we learn here, help – see our Reviews webpage. We volunteer because we want Peer Support Groups to be freely available, helping all adults in Leeds better manage their mental health.
You are not alone.
Peer Support Group Facilitators
To discover more
Continue to browse this website peersupportplus.org
Call 07434 614 829 at any time, for a friendly informal chat with one of our volunteers. They work irregular hours, so you may be asked to leave a voicemail message. We aim to respond within one working day.
Email us at enquire@peersupportplus.org
Or complete this Contact form and one of our volunteers will call back at a time that suits you.