Support for Adults
As a professional, parent, carer, and an adult, your emotional wellbeing is important.
Below are links to services that can support you as an adult to maintain your wellbeing and help you with issues you may be facing.
On this page, you will find services to support you with your emotional health and wellbeing.
Browse the full page or use the drop down menu below to find the topic you want.
Hull and East Yorkshire Mind
Even though 1 in 4 people have mental health problems, most of us don’t get the help they need. This has to change.
We’re Mind. We’re here to fight for mental health. For support, for respect, for you.
Information on Mental Health
Let’s Talk
Mental health problems are common and anyone can be affected.
Let’s Talk provide Talking Therapies for people with a Hull GP.
They can help you with the following common mental health issues:
Depression, Generalised anxiety disorder, Social anxiety disorder, Agoraphobia, Panic disorder, Phobias, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), PTSD, Health anxiety, Stress, Body Dysmorphic Disorder depression and anxiety, Bereavement.
Andy’s Man Club
ANDYSMANCLUB are a men’s suicide prevention charity, offering free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups across the United Kingdom and online. We want to end the stigma surrounding men’s mental health and help men through the power of conversation. #ITSOKAYTOTALK
Activities & Movement
Active Humber
Active Humber is a charitable company whose purpose is to help people of all ages and backgrounds to improve their health and well-being by taking part in regular physical activity and sport.
Fitmums & Friends
Fitmums & Friends are friendly, sociable, and supportive running and walking clubs organised by volunteers. You don’t have to be a mum of fit - men, dads, grandparents are all welcome. Groups include Mental Health Champions, who are volunteers committed to improving mental wellbeing through physical activity.
Hull & East Yorkshire Smile Foundation
The Smile foundation have lots of opportunities for volunteering and activities to get involved in.
Men’s Sheds
Connection, conversation and creation – that’s what joining a Men’s Shed is all about.
Men’s Sheds encourage people to come together to make, repair and repurpose, supporting projects in their local communities.
Improving wellbeing, reducing loneliness and combatting social isolation.
Dove House
Dove House Hospice is your local hospice, and has been caring for people in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire for almost 40 years. We care for people at the end of their lives, provide therapies to help people with life limiting illnesses improve their quality of life, and give much needed bereavement support to grieving families.
Bereavement
ReNew
ReNew support anyone struggling with drugs and alcohol.
Their website has information and support around substance use and how to improve your overall wellbeing.
Substances
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Kids
Childhood should be a joyful time. But some children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities are defined by what they cannot do. That’s wrong.
Every child should have an equal opportunity to play, learn, grow and thrive.
We create life-changing opportunities by providing a wide range of support. Together, we’ll empower disabled children to stand up for their rights.
The Hull SEND Local Offer
The Hull Local Offer website is where parents, carers, children and young people up to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can find information, advice and guidance about support, services and activities that are available to those living in Hull. We also provide a directories of information which includes details of services provided by third parties.
Kids Hull Befriending
Free emotional support for parents/carers who are adjusting to the news of their child’s disability or who are experiencing feelings of isolation and loneliness. This service is delivered by a team of trained volunteer befrienders.
Every befriender is a parent/carer too - someone whose own child has a disability. Parent/carers are matched with befrienders whose child has a similar disability. Befrienders are then able to understand and empathise because of their shared experience.
The Carers Information and Support Service (CISS)
The Carers’ information and Support Service (CISS) is a service dedicated to supporting carers, i.e. a person who looks after another adult or child with a chronic long-term illness or disability. The disability may be mental, physical or both.
CISS recognise the vital importance of carers and the support they provide, both the practical and the emotional. Caring can be really tough and demanding and we want to give carers the best support we can.
SEED
SEED is a group made of ordinary people who have had first-hand experience of eating disorders in one form or another.
SEED feel it is important to share experiences with others and help in any way possible.
Eating Disorders
Beat
Beat are the UK’s eating disorder charity. Founded in 1989 as the Eating Disorders Association, their mission is to end the pain and suffering caused by eating disorders.
House of Light
House of Light is a perinatal mental health charity offering support and counselling to parents’ pre-conception to post birth who are struggling with mental health difficulties following pregnancy, birth and in cases of loss, miscarriage, termination, and stillbirth.
We offer one to one counselling, group peer support, telephone, and email support, and one to one support within Hull Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Hull4heroes
Support for Military and Veterans. A safe and confidential space to share and discuss mental health worries for serving and ex-armed forces personnel.
Hull4heroes provide weekly social calls for vulnerable veterans and their families, financial advice and debt assistance, housing advice, sign posting to appropriate emotional wellbeing and mental health services.
Talk To Someone
Andy’s Man Club
ANDYSMANCLUB are a men’s suicide prevention charity, offering free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups across the United Kingdom and online. We want to end the stigma surrounding men’s mental health and help men through the power of conversation.
#ITSOKAYTOTALK
Lets Talk
Mental health problems are common and anyone can be affected.
Let’s Talk provide Talking Therapies for people with a Hull GP.
They can help you with the following common mental health issues:
Depression, Generalised anxiety disorder, Social anxiety disorder, Agoraphobia, Panic disorder, Phobias, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), PTSD, Health anxiety, Stress, Body Dysmorphic Disorder depression and anxiety, Bereavement.
The Dad Pad
It’s the essential guide for new dads, developed with the NHS. As a new dad you will feel excited, but you may also feel left out, unsure or overwhelmed.
The DadPad can help by giving you the knowledge and practical skills that you need. The resource will support you and your partner to give your baby the best possible start in life.
Solihull Online Parenting Guides
The Solihull Approach is about emotional health and wellbeing for all children, their parents, carers and grandparents. We are passionate about sensitive relationships, early years support and understanding brain development to help nurture kind, emotionally aware children as they grow.
We’re proud to offer inourplace as your portal for online courses tailored to children’s developmental stages for you to learn in your own time in a safe, private space.