Mental Health Resources

We support you with thoughts of suicide and in crises.

A counselling service for people in Germany under 25 years old who are experiencing suicidal thoughts. It is annonymous and confidential. Advice is carried out by trained volunteers called ‘Peers’ who are the same or smilar age.

The Telephone Pastoral Care – A Strong Community®

We, the TelefonSeelsorge, are a network of 104 offices in Germany. Almost 300 permanent employees and over 7,700 trained volunteers with very different life and professional skills work in these positions.

Behind the name are the two large churches in Germany as carriers of telephone pastoral care. as well as the Evangelical Conference for Telephone Pastoral Care and Open Door e. V. and the Catholic Federal Association for Marriage, Family and Life Counseling, Telephone Pastoral Care and Open Door

Since 1995 young lesbian, gay, bi, pansexual, asexual, inter *, trans * and non-binary people have been offering voluntary counseling for teenagers and young adults.

You can contact us with any questions, whether it is about (multiple) discrimination, love, gender, coming-out, partnership, friends, parents or other topics. We also know many topics from our own lives. We are lesbian, queer, inter *, gay, asexual, trans * (binary and non-binary), pansexual etc. We are between 16 and 27 years old. Some of us go to school, others study or work. We have different life plans and have different experiences with racism, disability and / or financial means. We reflect on our experiences of discrimination and our privileges in different social situations. We do the consultations on a voluntary basis in our free time.

A peer to peer counselling service, with volunteers aged between 16-27 there to support, give advice and help children, teenagers and young adults.

Depression: Help and information on dealing with the disease

The German Depression Aid Foundation and the Germany-wide network German Alliance against Depression of the German Depression Aid Foundation are continuously working to improve the care of people suffering from depression. We want to educate people about depression, do even better research on the disease and develop long-term care.””

A website dedicated to providing resources and information on depression, as well as where people in Germany can find help and support. The foundation is also dedicated into researching depression and how to make people living with depression have better quality of life, treatment and other help, as well as into finding more about depression as a psychological condition.

Talking about it helps – number against grief

A free phonecall service for children, young people and parents living in Germany who want to talk through their worries.

A telephone service and website that offers counselling and help to women in abusive and/or violent situations. The service is for all women from different backgrounds, including immigration, asylum and refugee status.

Advice comes in 17 languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Turkish, Kurdish, Romanian, Polish, Russian, Albanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Farsi/Dari and Arabic

Advice and counselling is also available in German sign language. Information is also printed in easy to read language (plain, simple and easy to understand).

The site can be accessed annonymously and has an Emergancy Exit button in case women need to leave quickly.