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Youth Counselling HelpingMinds® offers free professional youth counselling, education and support to young people ages 8 -17 years who have a friend or family member with a mental health issue. Counselling appointments operate for 30-60 minutes weekly or fortnightly. All counsellors are professionally trained and qualified and use therapies suited to each young person’s needs.Read more

Kay’s Story Kay tells her story of how mental challenges affected her daughter and her “I guess I was a bit scared because I didn’t really know much about mental challenges. The hardest was taking over looking after the kids which was just thrust on to me. It had a big impact on me likeRead more

Melanie’s Story Melanie’s story tells how mental challenges affected her and her family  In my teenage years I noticed that my family members were a bit concerned about experiences that I was having so I was quite young at the time. Having these experiences needing to go and see professionals meant that I wasn’t ableRead more

Sharon’s Story Sharon’s story tells how mental challenges affected her family  “Other people look at the person that’s got the illness and say “but there’s nothing wrong with them”, and then you try and explain it and they go, “but she is never like that” and you go “you don’t see what’s behind closed doors”.Read more

Catherine’s Story Catherine’s story tells how mental challenges affected her family and her as a carer “When you have a diagnosis for someone you love, especially a child it’s awful… you just want to deny it – it’s just not possible. Having a person in your life that was all over the place emotionally actuallyRead more

Courtney’s Story Courtney’s story tells how mental challenges affected her and her family I was concerned about my mental health because I’ve got children to raise & I want them to be happy and healthy. I hated myself, hated the world.  And I labored for my kids but I have no love. My whole lifeRead more