Useful links and phone numbers
These telephone contacts will be helpful for immediate counselling and support. People Skills can also help you on a long term basis. Contact us to arrange an appointment.
Lifeline (24 hour telephone counselling) - 131 114
Kids Helpline (24 hour telephone counselling for kids aged 5-25) - 1800 55 1800
NSW Rape Crisis Centre (24 hour telephone crisis and support counselling) - 1800 424 017
Gay and Lesbian Counselling Line - 1800 184 527
Life Goes On (counselling for patients and families facing serious illness) - 1300 364 673
Mensline (for men with family and relationship problems) - 1300 789 978
Salvo Care Line - 1300 363 622
SIDS & Kids NSW (24 hour counselling for families who have lost a child during pregnancy, birth or infancy) - 1800 651 186
Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Service - 1800 011 046
Victims Support Line - 1800 633 063
Bereavement
Southern Highlands Bereavement Care Service -www.shbcs.org.au
National Association for Loss and Grief - www.nalag.org.au
Grief Link Website - www.grieflink.asn.au
Bereavement Counselling and Support Service - www.grief.org.au/couns.html
The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement - www.grief.org.au
McKissock's Bereavement Care Centre - www.bereavementcare.com.au
Sudden Infant Death - www.sidsandkids.org
The Compassionate Friends NSW www.thecompassionatefriends.org.au
Reachout youth website - au.reachout.com
National Centre for Childhood Grief - www.childhoodgrief.org.au
Grief and substance abuse information from Recovery Village- www.therecoveryvillage.com/co-occurring-disorders/grief
Beyond Blue, the national depression initiative - www.beyondblue.org.au
What is depression? - www.abc.net.au/health/depression/whatis.htm
Depression information, help and support - www.depressionet.com.au
Depression explained - www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/depression/index.cfm
Information about depression - www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Depression
Depression symptoms - http://www.bluepages.anu.edu.au/index.php?id=depression-symptoms
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders, fact file - www.abc.net.au/health/library/anxietydisorders_ff.htm
Reach Out - http://au.reachout.com/
What is anxiety? - www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?link_id=1.5
Treatement options - www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Anxiety_treatment_options?open
Anxiety Online - https://www.anxietyonline.org.au/pages/resources-for-specific-difficulties-anxiety
Relationship Help
Relationships Australia - www.relationships.org.au/
Human Need - www.humaneed.com.au/
"How men can survive couple counselling" - www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/06/1060145721060.html
Life works - www.lifeworks.com.au/
Relationship counselling in Sydney - www.partnerproblems.com.au/
Gambling Help
Financial counselling helpline (national): 1800 007 007
Australian Government problem gambling services: www.problemgambling.gov.au
Gambling Help Online: http://www.gamblinghelponline.org.au/
Gambling Impact Society (NSW): http://gisnsw.org.au/
Gamblers Anonymous (NSW/ACT): http://www.gansw.org.au/, helpline tel 02 9726 6625
Gambler's Help Youthline (Vic): 1800 262 376
Gambling Help (NSW): https://gamblinghelp.nsw.gov.au/ Helpline 1800 858 858
G Line (counselling, crisis intervention and referals for problem gambling) - 1800 633 635