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Mental Health, Tangata Whai Ora

WALSH Trust

If you have a family member with a major mental illness, WALSH Trust can provide practical and emotional support to help them on their recovery journey. Here’s what you need to know:

Services Available

• Community Support Services: Tailored help with health, budgeting, social connection, and employment preparation.
• Peer Support: Recovery-focused support from people with lived experience of mental illness.
• Employment Support: Assistance to find and keep meaningful work.
• Personal Development Programs: Opportunities to build skills and confidence through workshops and outdoor activities.

Who Can Access

• People aged 17+ living in West Auckland.
• Those with a major mental illness (Axis 1 diagnosis) and practical or social support needs.
• Referrals are typically made through Community Mental Health Services or a GP.

How to Get Started

1. Talk to your family member’s GP or Community Mental Health team to discuss a referral.
2. For general inquiries or more information, you can contact WALSH Trust directly:
   📞 09 837 5240 | 📧 info@walsh.org.nz | 🌐 walsh.org.nz

WALSH Trust focuses on empowering individuals to achieve their personal goals, while also offering support and understanding for families along the way.

Mental Health, Family/Whaanau, Tangata Whai Ora

After a Suicide

After a Suicide is a website resource that offers practical information and guidance if someone you love or care about has died by suicide.

Mental Health, Family/Whaanau, Tangata Whai Ora

Anxiety New Zealand Trust

Provide support, treatment and education for anxiety, depression, OCD and phobias, and associated conditions related to anxiety.

Therapy - all ages - with a psychologist or psychotherapist supported by a Doctor (MOSS Psychiatry) where needed. Fees apply.

Free Peer Support Groups, Resilience Programs, Workshops and Education.

Free Anxiety Helpline 0800 ANXIETY (0800 269 4389)

Workshops, webinars and a range of services to support community resilience

Mental Health, Tangata Whai Ora

Aunty Dee

Aunty Dee is a free online tool for anyone who needs some help working through a problem or problems. It doesn't matter what the problem is, you can use Aunty Dee to help you work it through.

Mental Health

Changing Minds

Changing Minds leads collaborative social change projects aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination and improving mental health and wellbeing for communities and people.

Phone: 09 623 1762

Mental Health, Family/Whaanau, Tangata Whai Ora

Dayspring Trust

WDHB Maternal mental health service. 

-Dayspring Counselling service works with individuals, family groups and children.

-Maternal Mental Health Community Support Work Service

-Secure Beginnings - A joint service with Dayspring Trust and Matua Tuhononga- Infant Mental Health Service

Phone: 09 827 6321

Mental Health

Depression Helpline

This Depression Helpline and website is part of the National Depression which aims to help New Zealanders recognise and understand depression and anxiety.

Phone: 0800 111 757

Mental Health, Family/Whaanau

Eating Disorders Association of New Zealand (EDANZ)

EDANZ is a charitable organisation of parents who have experience in supporting a loved one with an eating disorder.

Phone: 0800 233 269 or 09 522 2679

Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Addiction, Tangata Whai Ora, Rainbow

Ember Korowai Takitini

Ember offers free support to individuals with lived experience of emotional distress, harm from alcohol or other drugs, and intellectual disabilities. From the early stages of recovery to re-entering the workforce, Ember provides comprehensive, wrap-around services. While primarily based in Auckland, Ember also operates services in Hamilton and Rotorua, with mobile employment consultants available from Northland to Pokeno.

🌈 Click the link to find Rainbow resources for workforce and community. 🌈

Services that can be accessed directly are:

• Whiti Ora: Groups for people to socialise or learn life or employment skills across the Auckland region, e.g. Pool table competition, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Bipolar Support. Transport from pick up points. Click the link for the referral forms and timetables.  pf.admin@ember.org.nz or 09 523 2790
• Ember Employment: Comprehensive mobile service for lived experience and the long-term unemployed from Pokeno to Kaitaia. employment@ember.org.nz  or 09 523 2790
• Mahi Marumaru AOD Peer Support: Mobile face-to-face support for people experiencing harm from alcohol or other drugs in Counties Manukau. Contact david.cutten@ember.org.nz or 021 393 347.
• Peer Talk: Free, phone-based support from Peer Support Workers, 7 days a week, 5pm to midnight, for Counties Manukau residents. Call 0800 234 432.
• DRIVE Consumer Direction Counties Manukau: A network for people with lived experience in Counties Manukau. Navigation, workshops, hui and scholarships. Website here. 
• Peer Employment Training: For people who want to use their lived experience to work as Peer Support Workers in Counties Manukau. ruth.cheeseman@ember.org.nz. Application form versions: Word and Pdf.

Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Addiction

Emerge Aotearoa

Emerge Aotearoa provides a wide range of community-based mental health, addiction, disability support and social housing services nationwide. They believe that everyone is capable of living full and rich lives in their communities of choice.

Auckland Phone: 09 839 7301 

Northland Phone: 09 470 3530