TRAUMA RESOURCES
Blue Knot Foundation
1300 657 380 (9-5, 7 days a week)
Helps those dealing with complex trauma and those processing childhood trauma with phone or email counselling for support. Provides fact sheets, training and services.
Note: For those with a disability who have experienced abuse, neglect, violence or exploitation, there is a specific helpline to help with those issues:
1800 421 468 (9-5, 7 days a week)
Eastern Centre against Sexual Assault (ECASA)
9870 7330 (9-8:30pm Mondays, 9-5 Tuesday-Friday).
Provides free counselling and support to those who have experienced sexual assault. recently or in the past. Service is also available to family and friends providing support.
Services include face to face counselling, telephone counselling, 24h access to crisis care, therapeutic group work, information and referrals and more.
Eastern Health Mental Health Triage
Click here for further information
1300 721 927 (24h, 7 days a week)
Mental health service operating within the Eastern Region of Melbourne providing mental health assessment and interventions for people experiencing severe mental illness.
Mental Health Online
https://www.mentalhealthonline.org.au
Free service, requires signing up for an account.
Provides access to online mental health assessment, treatment programs and eTherapists once a treatment program has begun.
MindSpot
Create an account for an assessment on your mental health, then be connected to recommendations for treatment. CBT courses may be recommended by a MindSpot therapist.
Chat to a psychologist at the clinic once a week online.
myCompass by the Black Dog Institute
Consumers can list behaviours that aren’t working for them. The program will keep track of them and highlight potential triggers.
Also shows a graph in self-monitoring which can show changes in mood over time. Sends messages regularly to remind the user to stay on-track.
Designed for mild to moderate anxiety and depression.
Is free to anyone in Australia.
Can print out graphs and take it to a clinician to show them what’s going on.
Has a “mood monitoring” system that you can plot against lifestyle changes including physical activity, healthy eating, drinking habits, etc.
My Digital Health
https://www.mydigitalhealth.org.au
Easy way for a practitioner and client to keep track of a client’s mental health progress, and for a consumer to learn more about mental health.
Includes a program for post-traumatic stress, as well as one called iChooseLife for those who are suicidal.
Open Arms Veteran and Family Counselling
1800 011 046 (9-5 weekdays)
Provides support for veterans, their families and friends supporting them.
SANE Australia
1800 187 263
Support for people with complex mental health issues. Provides counselling, peer support, information and more.
Safe Steps
1800 015 188 (24h support)
Free professional support services for women and children experiencing violence and abuse from a partner or ex-partner, another family member, or someone close to them.
Sexual Assault Crisis Line
1800 806 292 (5pm-9am weekdays, 24h weekends and public holidays).
Support line providing confidential telephone counselling for people who have experienced past or recent sexual assault.
7 Cups
Free online 24h chat tool with trained professionals. Available as an app or as a website.