Provides free drug and alcohol counselling with a professional counsellor via online chat or email, as well as forums, self-help and other tools.

Online Alcohol & Drug Counselling

MensLine Australia offers free professional counselling support for men with concerns about mental health, anger management, family violence, addiction, relationship, stress and wellbeing.

MensLine Australia offers free professional counselling support for men with concerns about mental health, family violence, addiction, relationship, and stress.

Mens Line Australia

Provides a 24 hour telephone support service, information and meetings for the families of people affected by alcohol and drug misuse.

Family Drug Support

Provides free nationwide legal advice and financial counselling services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Mob Strong Debt Help provides free nationwide legal advice and financial counselling services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Mob Strong Debt Help

Provides a free, national anonymous telephone and online chat support service for adults in the community who are experiencing social isolation and/or loneliness and would like to have a chat with a friendly volunteer. 

Volunteers are screened, trained and closely supervised. 

This is a place to talk as people would to a friend or family member.

Telephone and online chat support service for anyone feeling lonely who wants to have a chat with a friendly volunteer.

Friends For Good

The Service Finder is a directory of free or low cost health and community services in Australia. Search for GPs, counsellors, material support and much more.

Lifeline Service Finder

Provides free and confidential counselling and support to people experiencing grief and loss across Australia.

Phone services

Online forums

Resources

Griefline provides free and confidential counselling and support to people experiencing grief and loss across Australia.

Griefline

Peer CARE Companion Warmline is a suicide prevention call-back service by Roses in the Ocean. They provide a safe place for people with a lived experience of suicide to connect with others with a similar lived experience.

Peer CARE Companion Warmline is a suicide prevention call-back service providing a safe place for people with a lived experience of suicide.

Peer CARE Companion Warmline

The Beyond Blue Support Service offers a free, confidential and 24/7 counselling service for all Australians looking for a little help with their mental health.

Beyond Blue Support Service

Provides telephone and online counselling service for people at risk of suicide, their carers, and people bereaved by suicide.

Suicide Call Back Service provides telephone and online counselling for people at risk of suicide, their carers, and people bereaved by suicide.

Suicide Call Back Service

Blue Knot Foundation provides counselling and support for anyone affected by complex trauma and helps them to recover and build resilience.

Blue Knot Helpline

National Counselling and Referral Service - Disability

Blue Knot Foundation provides counselling and support for anyone affected by complex trauma and helps them to recover and build resilience. 

Blue Knot Foundation

Kids Helpline is a free, confidential, online and phone counselling service for kids, teens and young people, who want to talk about anything, at any time

Kids Helpline is a free, confidential, online and phone counselling service for kids, teens and young people, who want to talk about anything, at any time.

Kids Helpline

Service Finder GP by healthdirect provides Australia's most comprehensive directory of healthcare professionals and services.

Service Finder GP

Lifeline’s Forums are a safe, anonymous online space to chat with others in similar situations, monitored 24/7 by mental health professionals.

Being able to communicate with people in a similar situation online is a blessing.

Lifeline Forums

ReachOut is a safe place for young people to express themselves openly, connect with people who provide free-judgement support and find strategies to manage life challenges.

ReachOut is a safe place for young people to express themselves openly, get free-judgement support and find strategies to manage life challenges. 

ReachOut

The National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is a 24/7 service that provides free and confidential advice, information and counselling about alcohol and other drugs.

The National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is a 24/7 service that provides free and confidential advice about alcohol and other drugs.

National Alcohol & Other Drug Hotline

WayAhead Anxiety Support Groups are small numbers of people who come together to share personal experiences and information, led by a trained volunteer facilitator.

I date my recovery from OCD from the day I first attended a support group. There I found people who understood exactly what I was going through, because they were going through it too - or had been through it, and come out the other side.

WayAhead Anxiety Support Groups are small numbers of people who come together to share personal experiences, led by a trained volunteer facilitator.

WayAhead Anxiety Support Groups

eFriend is a free service that allows people to access up to 15 virtual peer support sessions via video or phone call.

eFriend

Provides free, independent and confidential financial counselling with a qualified professional via phone or live chat Monday to Friday.

National Debt Helpline provides free, independent and confidential financial counselling with a qualified professional via phone or live chat Monday to Friday.

National Debt Helpline

Run online and in-person meetings that support you to achieve behaviour change goals around alcohol and drug use, or other addictive behaviours.

SMART Recovery Australia

Carer Gateway aims to make your life easier by providing emotional, practical and financial support for carers.

Carer Gateway

Free, confidential, one-to-one support for people who are feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty coping or staying safe, via phone, text, or online chat.

Phone

Text

Online chat

Lifeline Crisis Support

BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register that lets you exclude yourself from all Australian licensed online and phone gambling services.

BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register that lets you exclude yourself from all Australian licensed online and phone wagering services.

BetStop

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