Category: Mental Health

  • Canmore Trust

    About

    The Canmore Trust is a charitable company committed to impacting the suicide community with both suicide prevention and suicide postvention.

    • Working with schools, colleges and universities to raise awareness of suicide and to prevent suicide.
    • Establishing facilities in which individuals challenged by suicide and families affected by suicide can be assisted to rebuild their lives.
    • Training individuals with “lived experience” of suicide to provide support and assistance to others.
    • Facilitating a programme of research across UK universities investigating and identifying psychological and physiological risk factors in suicide.
    • Working across the suicide charities sector to co-ordinate and facilitate a unified approach to funding and action against suicide.

    Contact

    If you find yourself in a personal crisis, text ‘CANMORE’ to 85258.

    Email: admin@thecanmoretrust.co.uk

  • Discovery College

    Discovery College is the Highland’s first college dedicated to helping individuals gain a deeper understanding of wellbeing, mental health, and/or substance use. The college offers a unique learning experience that provides individuals with the skills and knowledge to improve their overall quality.

    They offer a range of sessions continually co-developed and co-delivered by a team of highly qualified subject experts, peer supporters, and individuals with lived experience. Their aim is to empower you to better manage and cope with life’s challenges, allowing you to achieve personal growth and a sense of purpose.

    Whether you’re looking to expand your knowledge, acquire new skills, or simply want to explore opportunities for the future, our college provides a welcoming environment for all. Discovery College believe that everyone can benefit from the courses offered at Discovery College, regardless of where you are on your life’s journey. You don’t need any qualifications to join them, just an open mind and a willingness to participate.

    Contact

    Email: discoverycollege@centred.scot

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    Phone: 01463 236 507

  • Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide

    About

    Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide offer UK peer-led support to adults impacted by suicide loss.

    Those who have experienced this terrible tragedy truly understand. No-one needs to suffer alone. Together those affected can help each other.

    SBS help individuals support each other, at the time of their loss and in the months and years that follow. They aim to provide safe, confidential environments where people can share their experiences and feelings, giving and gaining support from each other.

    Contact

    Support line: 0300 111 5065

    Open everyday from 9am to 7pm.

  • CRUSE Scotland

    About

    Cruse Scotland provides bereavement counselling and listening services to adults and children who are struggling with their grief. They also provide information, advice and training to many organisations and workplaces.

    CRUSE Scotland currently have a project in Highland to FAST-TRACK support to people bereaved by suicide until end November 2025.

    They have ongoing government funding for workplace support where there has been a bereavement by suicide. More information on this and other training services can be found on the CRUSE Scotland website.

    Contact

    Website: Cruse Website

    Free Bereavement Helpline: 0808 802 6161

    Available Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm.

    Saturday and Sunday 10am to 2pm.

    Access bereavement support via the GriefChat function on Cruse Scotland’s website.

    Available Monday to Friday, 9am to 9pm.

  • SilverCloud

    About

    SilverCloud is your space for thinking and feeling better.

    Most of us face challenges in our lives. From stresses caused by a particular situation at work or home, to deeper and more lasting feelings of anxiety or depression. No one teaches us how to handle these situations and so we’re left to think that there’s something wrong with us, that we’re ill.

    We believe it doesn’t have to be this way. With the right insight, advice and actions, most people can take an active role in thinking and feeling better. And we deliver programmes that build on this belief.

    SilverCloud is a completely confidential internet-based system or platform developed by SilverCloud Health that delivers online therapeutic and psycho-education programs. A variety of programs aim to offer information and support for people experiencing problems related to mental health.

    The programmes consist of six to seven modules which can be completed at a time and pace most convenient to the user. Each module contains text, video and audio clips as well as interactive and engaging activities, applications and quizzes that can be completed as the user moves through the module.

    Get help with:

    • Challenging Times
    • Money Worries
    • Communication and Relationships
    • Grief and Loss
    • Sleep
    • Stress
    • Body Image
    • Supporting and anxious child
    • Supporting an anxious teen
    • Self management

    Sign up at SilverCloud – Making Space For Healthy Minds

    **When you go into the SilverCloud site for the first time, enter the access code NHS24**

    Unsure if this is suitable? Try out the wellbeing questionnaire found on a the bottom of the website

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  • Black Isle Cares

    About

    Black Isle Cares offers a befriending service. The befriending service offers support to individuals in the community who feel lonely or isolated. Under this service, individuals will be matched with a volunteer befriender who will visit regularly to offer practical and social support. The service is free of charge and runs with the help of volunteer befrienders. All volunteer befrienders are trained through the Highland Hospice Helping Hands program and will need to successfully pass full PVG checks.

    Contact

    Website: Befriending | Black Isle Cares

    Email: befriending@blackislecares.com 

    Phone: 07720 168266

  • Mhor Collective – Connecting into Care

    About

    Our free service offers support to anyone who is experiencing difficulties with their mental health and wellbeing, and is struggling to get online or access digital devices. We are based at the Discovery College in the Eastgate Centre, Inverness (where Argos used to be) where we are available for drop-ins every Wednesday, 10am-4pm.

    Our service includes:

    • 1:1 support with digital devices either in person or online
    • group learning opportunities
    • digital and health skills sessions
    • devices available to lend through our device library (with free data)
    • affordable device data
    • compassionate, person-first support to help you regain confidence and independence
    • improved social network

    Contact

    Website: Discovery Referrals – Mhor Collective

    Email: anya@mhorcollective.com

    Phone: 07943 927281

    Self referral or refer a friend available at Connecting into Care Referral Form (Google Doc)

  • Brent Centre Highlands

    About

    The Brent Centre Highlands is a free service that offers psychotherapy and practical support to young people, aged 14-21 in the Scottish Highlands region.

    The Brent Centre Highlands clinic is based in Inverness, Scotland. The centre provides essential mental health services to young people in the region, filling a gap for specialised adolescent support.

    Contact

    Website: Brent Centre Highlands – Brent Centre for Young People

    Interested in learning more? Please contact Sarah Fielding, Specialist Mental Health Worker, at Highlands@brentcentre.org.uk

  • Bipolar Scotland

    About

    “We are Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar. Our vision is for a good life for everyone in Scotland who lives with bipolar. We are member-led, collaborative, advocates of peer support, rights-based and focused on equality, and lived experience is at the heart of everything we do. “

    Support is offered through:

    • Support groups
    • Peer Support
    • Self Management Training
    • Beyond Diagnosis

    In person support groups run in Inverness and support groups for across Highland available online. Find upcoming dates at: Support Groups – Bipolar Scotland

    Contact:

    Website: Bipolar Scotland – Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar

  • Highland Mindfulness

    About

    The Highland Mindfulness Group was initially an informal group set up by former Drumnadrochit GP Dr Peter Wilkes well over 15 years ago. The Group has since evolved and became a registered charity in 2020. It now draws on the skills of a team of 11 trained mindfulness facilitators.

    This is a secular group unattached to any religious movement or lineage. Whilst it does not affiliate to any religion, it does of course welcome those with religious beliefs.

    Free drop-in sessions on Zoom 6 days a week with guided meditation practices (beginners welcome). The group also offers:

    • Free drop-in session face to face every fortnight in Inverness to support people’s ongoing mindfulness practice (beginners welcome)
    • Range of courses – including beginner’s mindfulness courses (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course and the Mindfulness Based Living Course), Kindfulness self-care course, and Insight meditation courses.
    • Regular meditation days in Inverness 
    • ‘Slow down Saturdays’ in Golspie (resuming September 2025)
    • Mindfulness in Nature sessions
    • Residential weekend mindfulness retreats in the Highlands
    • Taster sessions for groups and organisations can be arranged, as well as day workshops.
    • Free meditation recordings – please explore their website where you can listen to many guided practices.

    Events and services are for people aged over 18.

    Contact

    Email: highlandmindfulness@gmail.com

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