Category: Thurso, Wick

  • Highland Eating Disorder Support

    About

    An adult outpatient eating disorder service, serving the Highland Health and Social Care Partnership area (excluding Argyll and Bute), treating patients aged 18 and over.

    “I hope these pages offer what you’re seeking. If you’d like to talk privately about something or someone, please fill out the contact page with your information, and I’ll reach out to set up a convenient time for us to chat“.

    Important Information

    “If you haven’t already done so a key starting point is to book a visit with your GP, who can refer you to NHS services if they think it’s needed. For more details, feel free to chat with me directly or fill out the contact form on the website”.

    Contact

    Website: Highland eating Disorder Support

    Telephone: 07958 783 838

    E-mail: michelle@highlandeatingdisorder.co.uk

    • Mon – Fri 09:00 am – 06:00 pm
    • Saturday 10:00 am – 05:00 pm
    • Sunday Closed

  • 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

    Available on the website and apps.

    Google Play Store

    Apple App Store

  • 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)

  • Who Cares? Scotland

    About

    Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people.

    We provide support to Care Experienced people across Scotland. This support takes a variety of forms including independent advocacy, our helpline, knowledge about your rights and access to local groups.

    Contact

    Website: Who Cares? Scotland

    Email: hello@whocaresscotland.org

    Phone: 0141 226 4441

    Contact form available: Contact us – Who Cares? Scotland (whocaresscotland.org)

  • Reach4Reality

    About

    Reach4Reality provide positive activities for young people and young adults, aged 9-25, with social communication difficulties through a planned series of outdoor activity breaks (camps) tailored to their individual needs. Camps may last from a 24 hour stop over, a weekend or up to a week in the school holidays.  Young people are accompanied and supported on a 1:1 ratio by our team of carefully selected and trained volunteers.

    Before a young person/adult comes on a camp, a staff member will visit him/her at home and begin to develop a relationship with them through a number of short activity sessions locally, leading up to a day’s activity at a local outdoor pursuits centre. When a young person is ready they will be invited for a 24 hour stopover or weekend.

    Activities might include any of the following: canoeing, kayaking, ropes course, mountain biking, sailing, archery and team challenges; but the programme is determined by the needs and interests of the young people concerned.

    Contact

    Website: Reach4Reality

    Email: info@reach4reality.org.uk

    Phone: 07796 905339

  • Moniack Mhor – Creativity and Care

    About

    Creativity and Care is a three-year programme of creative and personal development opportunities for young care experienced people living in Scotland.

    Young people, aged 14-30, who have experience of the care system, can request one-to-one support, apply for funds through our discretionary fund, or take part in workshops, taster sessions, and residentials – all designed to provide a safe, nurturing, and equal space of creativity and discovery.

    If you are unsure whether this applies to you, you can chat to the team using the contact details below

    Contact

    Website: Creativity and Care – Moniack Mhor

    Email: aileen@moniackmhor.org.uk

    edel@moniackmhor.org.uk

    vicky@moniackmhor.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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  • Parent Club

    About

    “Being a parent is the best job in the world. Just not all the time. It can also be the hardest. A continual learning curve with new challenges at every turn. 

    Sometimes it can feel tough. And in those moments, when parents and carers need somewhere to turn, we want to be there for you, with information you can trust, all in one place.

    Through pregnancy and toddler tantrums, to starting school and all the way up to those tricky teenage years, we’re here to help. Offering tips and advice for all the challenges that family life throws up, from experts and parents and carers who’ve been there before.

    After all, we’re all in the same club.”

    Contact

    Website: Parent Club – For Baby Box And All Your Parenting Needs

  • Highland Peep

    About

    The Programme supports parents perinatally (i.e. before and after the birth) to reflect on their developing baby, tune in to their baby’s feelings and behaviour and respond sensitively (known as reflective functioning). This helps parent-baby bonding and attachment, and reduces the risk to the early parent–baby relationship, helping to prevent isolation, anxiety and low-level depression.

    All sessions are a mix of discussion, video clips, sharing of relevant research and advice, songs/rhymes and story sharing, all underpinned by the focus on reflective functioning.  After the initial phone conversation with the parent/s, we offer five group sessions of about an hour each, focusing on:

    1. Getting to know each other
    2. Supportive networks
    3. Transition to parenthood
    4. The developing brain, and emotional support
    5. Baby states

    Following these five sessions, we offer a reunion session once the babies are born.  Throughout the course we also signpost parents to other groups or provision within their local community.

    Contact

    Highland Peep Facebook page: Highland Peep | Inverness | Facebook

    Email: gillian.forbes@highland.gov.uk

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