National Help

New Zealand

Carers

Mental Health - General

Child & Adolescent

Depression

Bi-Polar Disorder

Anxiety Disorders

Quick Contacts

Carers

Caring for Carers
Website: www.caringforcarers.org.nz

Carers New Zealand
Phone: 09 406 0412
Email: info@carers.net.au
Website: www.carers.net.nz

New Zealand Carers Alliance

Schizophrenia Fellowship of New Zealand
It provides the best possible education, advocacy and support for carers of people experiencing a major mental illness. It includes all mental illnesses, not just schizophrenia.
Phone: 04 499 7012
Email: office@sfnat.org.nz
Website: www.sfnat.org.nz
It includes details of branches.

Mental Health - General

Central Potential – Te Rito Maia
Phone: 0800 837 486 or 04 382 9600
Email: admin@cp-teritomaia.org.nz
Website: //cpteritomaia.protosite.co.nz

Chinese Lifeline
It provides counselling by telephone and face-to-face.
Phone: 0800 888 880 or 09 522 2088 (both are restricted hours – see website)
Website: www.chineselifeline.org.nz

Healthline
It provides advice by a registered nurse (24 hours).
Phone: 0800 611 116
Website: www.healthline.co.nz

Lifeline
It provides free telephone counselling.
Phone: 0800 543 354 (24 hours a day, 365 days a year)
Website: www.lifeline.co.nz

Lifeline – Email Counselling
Purpose: It provides free counselling by email. The service is provide by Lifeline Christchurch, but is available from anywhere in New Zealand and the South Pacific region. The response time is about 3 days.
Email: chris@elifeline.co.nz
Website: www.elifeline.co.nz

Mensline
It provides free telephone counselling. The service is provided by Lifeline Auckland, but is available to all living in New Zealand.
Phone: 0800 636 754 or 09 522 2500 (Mon-Fri 6:30pm to 10:30pm)
Website: www.mensline.org.nz

Mental Health Commission
Purpose: It is set out in the Mental Health Commission Act 2007 (refer website)
Phone: 04 474 8900
Email: info@mhc.govt.nz
Website: www.mhc.govt.nz

Mental Health Education and Resource Centre (MHERC)
Purpose: It provides a free mental health library for all living on the South Island. It is based in Christchurch, but items can be posted free of charge (with return postage paid).
Phone: 0800 424 399 or 03 365 5344
Email: mherc@xtra.co.nz
Website: www.mherc.org.nz
It includes the full library database.

Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
Its aim is to improve the mental health of all people in New Zealand. This is through mental health promotion, reducing stigma and discrimination, providing resources and assisting in policy and advocacy.
Phone: 09 300 7010 or 09 300 7030 (Resource Centre)
Email: resource@mentalhealth.org.au (Resource Centre)
Website: www.mentalhealth.org.nz

MindNet.org.nz
It is a newsletter of the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.
Website: www.mindnet.org.nz

mindnz.co.nz
It is primarily for those who have experienced psychosis, or have schizophrenia or have bipolar disorder.
Email: through website
Website: www.mindnz.co.nz

Samaritans of Wellington
It is not just for those with a mental illness.
Phone: 0800 726 666 or 04 473 9739 or 04 298 2122 (Kapiti)
Website: www.samaritans.org.nz
It includes contact details for other centres.
 
Step Ahead Trust
It provides social, educational, recreational and pre-vocational rehabilitation through activity based programs.
Phone: 03 389 4001 or 0800 688 732 (rural)
Email: info@stepahead.org.nz
Website: www.stepahead.org.nz

Suicide Prevention Information New Zealand
It is a national information service assisting communities and services to prevent suicide by providing them with best practice information. It is part of the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. It is not a crisis or counselling service.
Phone: 09 300 7035
Email: info@spinz.org.nz
Website: www.spinz.org.nz

Te Pou: The National Centre of Mental Health Research and Workforce Development
It aims to build a strong and enduring workforce to deliver mental health services to all people; and to develop a culture of continuous quality improvement in which information and knowledge is welcomed and used to enhance recovery and service development.
Email: webeditor@tepou.co.nz (general enquiries)
Website: www.tepou.co.nz
 It provides more contact details.

Child and adolescent

Headspace.org.nz
It primarily provides mental health information to “young people”. It also provides information to carers and schools.
Website: www.headspace.org.nz

The Kid’s Help Foundation Trust
It provides telephone counselling to those aged between 5 and 18 years.
Phone: 0800 942 8787 (noon to midnight) for 09 630 4144
Email: info@whatsup.co.nz
Website: www.whatsup.co.nz
 
Kidsline
Purpose: It helps children with problems through telephone counselling. Between 4pm and 6pm each day the line is staffed by Kids Budddies – students in Years 12 and 13.
Phone: 0800 543 754 (0800 KIDSLINE) 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Email: through website
Website: www.kidsline.org.nz

thelowdown.co.nz
It helps youth with depression (target audience is about 13 to 24 years). It is an initiative of the Ministry of Health.
Email: through website
Website: www.thelowdown.co.nz
It includes a chatroom and an email contact to counsellors.

Skylight Trust
It provides support to children, young people and their families through change, loss, trauma and grief.
Phone: 0800 299 100 or 04 939 6767
Email: info@skylight-trust.org.nz
Website: www.skylight.org.nz

Youthline
Its services include the provision of counselling (telephone, face-to-face or email).
Phone: 0800 376 633 (for counselling)
Email: talk@youthline.co.nz (for counselling)
Website: www.youthline.co.nz

Depression

depression.org.nz
It provides information on depression. It is sponsored by the Ministry of Health.
Phone: Depression Helpline: 0800 111 757 
Website: www.depression.org.nz

Out of the Blue – Kia Marama
It is a depression awareness campaign from the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.
Email: contactus@mentalhealth.org.nz (including for the submission of stories)
Website: www.outoftheblue.org.nz
It includes personal stories from those that have had depression.

Postnatal Depression Family/Whanau New Zealand Trust
It is a charitable trust whose main purpose is to provide information for mothers, fathers and families on post-natal depression.
Email: through website
Website: www.mothersmatter.co.nz

Bipolar Disorder

Balance NZ Bipolar and Depression Network
It is a charitable trust that helps those with a mood disorder.
Phone: 03 366 3631
Email: info@balance.org.nz
Website: www.balance.org.nz
It includes on-line support groups.

Anxiety Disorders

Agoraphobia Support Group (Canterbury)
This is a group of people who have experienced agoraphobia.
Phone: 03 374 9893
Email: agoraphobic.support@xtra.co.nz
Website: www.agoraphobia.org.nz

OCD Support Group (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Phone: 03 366 0560
Email: through website
Website: www.ocd.org.nz
It includes personal stories.

The Phobic Trust of New Zealand
It is to stimulate awareness and education of anxiety, phobic and compulsive disorders, alleviate the suffering of those involved, and provide input into the research of the cause and management of these disorders.
Phone: 09 846 9776 or 0800 ANXIETY (for helpline)
Email: clinic@phobic.org.nz
Website: www.phobic.org.nz

Social Anxiety Support
Email: through website
Phone: 03 377 9665
Website: www.socialphobia.org.nz