The Association is the national umbrella body for benevolent charities, that is charities who provide aid and advice to individuals in need.  Any charity helping individuals can join the Association.

Established in 1981, the APP is an organisation formed to advance the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the National Health Service and other Public Services. The APP achieves its aims by helping to co-ordinate activities and educational facilities for psychoanalytic psychotherapists working in the NHS and other Public Services but it is not a training organisation, and membership of APP does not confer qualification to work in the NHS as a psychotherapist. The APP represents members' views in the NHS and other public services to encourage the development of a psychodynamic perspective in these settings.

Website providing information and links for professionals from health, local authority and the voluntary sector who are involved in the development and delivery of child and adolescent mental health services.

The Caspari Foundation is an organisation that helps children with emotional, learning and behavioural difficulties to succeed in school.

Educational Psychotherapy is a method of working with troubled children who struggle with learning.  It is a technique that combines psychoanalytic and educational insight and techniques.

Therapeutic Storywriting uses the metaphor in stories to support children whose emotional difficulties are getting in the way of their learning.

Evidence-based research shows that the approach helps children deal with difficult feelings while also developing their literacy skills. Used in more than 400 schools and recommended by the DfES

This website is ultimately to provide the UK with a huge counselling support network, enabling those in distress to find a counsellor close to them and appropriate for their needs. This is a free, confidential service that will hopefully encourage those in distress to seek help. The website also contains a number of sections on emotional disorders (types of distress section) and provides some useful statistics. Every counsellor on the site who has submitted their profile has either sent a copy of their qualifications and insurance cover to us, or is registered with a professional body online with recognised codes of ethics and practice, this way we can be assured of their professionalism. 

HandsOnScotland is an online resource for anybody working with children and young people. The website provides practical information and techniques on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour, build up their self-esteem and promote their positive mental wellbeing.

A group of families who Home Educate children with Special Educational Needs.  “Home Education” is the UK term for what may be better known as Homeschooling. Our children don't attend school, or in some cases may only attend school part time.

If you are Home Educating a child with Special Educational Needs, or if this is something that you are thinking about, then clink on this link for more information.

This website is to provide the UK with a huge hypnotherapy support network, enabling those needing help to find a hypnotherapist close to them and appropriate for their needs. This is a free confidential service that will provide those seeking support with all the information they need. Every hypnotherapist on the site who has submitted their profile has either sent a copy of their qualifications and insurance cover, or is registered with a professional body with recognised codes of ethics and practice, this way we can be assured of their professionalism.

Extensive advice on the causes and treatments for OCD

Relationship support in Brighton, Hove, Eastbourne, Worthing and Districts.  Relate helps over 150,000 people each year. We will help you whether you are married or not and whatever your age, race, personal beliefs, sexual orientation or social background.

The focus of Anni’s work is on facilitating individuals, groups and teams to become more assertive and creative in their relationships with each other in order to develop truly assertive organisations in which everyone is enabled to be their true and best selves and diversity is lived.

Understanding Childhood provides free downloadable information leaflets for families and childcare professionals to help raise emotionally secure children.

Understanding Childhood offers leaflets on children’s emotional development from birth to adulthood. These popular and well-regarded leaflets were written by experienced child and adolescent psychotherapists for the Child Psychotherapy Trust (CPT), which operated successfully from 1987 to 2004.

The leaflets are widely used by families, health visitors, Sure Starts and other child and family practitioners. They are useful in training and parenting education. Evaluation shows that the leaflets provide helpful insights into the emotional development of children.

A small national charity set up in 1994 to raise awareness about the importance of the emotional needs of children under three.

We are a national charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people under 25. We do this through giving advice, training, campaigning and distributing publications. Children and young people are at the heart of all YoungMinds decision-making.