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Find a Local Service

Search our map for perinatal mental health support in your area.

You can also check our list of National Services further down the page.

Do you belong to a grassroots organisation and are you interested in featuring on our map? Click the button to find out more . . .

Services with a National Reach

There are lots of organisations who offer perinatal mental health support in local areas across the whole of England. Some of them run phone / text and online support which can be accessed from wherever you are. Please see below for a service that might be right for you.

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APNI (Association for Post-Natal Illness)

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Online, Telephone

General Perinatal Mental Health Support

APNI is a small charity who offer support and advice to anyone affected by postnatal illness. We run a helpline and online service but no face to face/group work.


APNI is often a first port of call for those struggling to understand PNI and we offer continued support as needed as well as signposting to other useful services in your area.


We have a bank of volunteers who have all experienced PNI themselves and offer peer support via phone/email alongside any professional input they may have.

Referral Process

Anyone can self refer. We get calls from people who have been given our details by their GP, HV, social worker or who have been given our leaflets in hospital, as well as people who simply search the internet and find us.

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info@apni.org 0207 386 0868

Dad Matters

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Face-to-face, Telephone, Online

Partners / fathers

We support dads and male carers to understand attachment and bonding, theirs and mums' mental health and accessing appropriate services. We do this through a blended approach of universal engagement, targeted group support and one to one peer support. Online support is also available UK-wide.

Referral Process

We have a referral form that needs to be completed. Each local area has its own system, so any enquiries to dadmatters@homestarthost.org.uk will be forwarded to the relevant area for processing and initial contact.

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Hey Mama

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Face-to-face, Online

General Perinatal Mental Health Support

Hey Mama is a peer support community run by mums with their own lived experiences of maternal mental health.

If you’re struggling with your mental health, feeling a little wobbly, having a hard time and/or prefer a smaller group to chat to, we are here for you!

We would love for you to join us at one of our peer support groups for refreshments, toys, crafts and opportunities to meet new mamas. All groups are free to attend. We also offer online support to people across the UK.

Referral Process

Any mother struggling with their mental health can come along to our groups in Bradford and Harrogate. We accept referrals from healthcare professionals and mums are also welcome to self refer.

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Mayah's Legacy

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Online, Face-to-face

Baby Loss, Neonatal, General Perinatal Mental Health Support

Mayah's Legacy empowers families by providing them with tools to make decisions about their treatment and perinatal care, as well as to explore a hollistic appraoch to their wellbeing. 


Our complimentary resource hub is designed to assist families in rebuilding their confidence and actively participating in decisions that impact them. Within this hub, families can freely access webinars, self-advocay toolkits, affirmation cards and variety of other resources aimed at fostering self-compassion during the perinatal period.

Referral Process

Our resources are free and available online. You can contact us via email or send a message via the online portal on our website and we will be in touch within 7 days to have an informal chat and direct you towards the most appropriate group / service.

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OCD Action

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Online

Perinatal OCD, LGBTQIA+, Partners / fathers

OCD Action is the National Charity for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and related disorders. As part of our range of Skype / Phone & Zoom support groups we run a Perinatal OCD support group for women diagnosed  with OCD during pregnancy or with children up to five years of age. These remote groups are an informal, safe and supportive environment for people to share experiences of OCD and to offer encouragement to other people.

Referral Process

To sign up, visit our website, tick the relevant sign-up box for our Perinatal OCD group and input your contact details in the spaces provided. For any further information about our group before you sign up please email or phone us.

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Petals

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Face-to-face, Telephone, Online

Baby Loss, Neonatal

Petals provide a specialist counselling service for individuals or couples who experience the loss of a pregnancy or the death of a baby up to one year old. Our unique model delivers a programme of counselling that is tailored to support the client through the early stages of loss, coaching them through a grieving process and working through any trauma they have experienced during the ending of their pregnancy or the death of their baby.

We partner with the following hospitals & Trusts: Colchester Hospital; Guys & St Thomas' Hospital London; Harrogate & District NHS Trust; Hillingdon Hospital; Hinchingbrooke Hospital; Imperial Hospital Trust London; Ipswich Hospital; Lister Hospital Stevenage; Nottingham University Hospitals; Oxford University Hospital Trust; Peterborough City Hospital; Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow; St George’s hospital London (South); West Herts Hospital Trust; West Suffolk Hospital; Wye Valley NHS Trust.

Referral Process

You can complete our referral form on our website. The majority of our referrals come from Health Professionals or patients at our partner hospitals. We are also able to take some self-referrals from across the country but are limited by funding. We will always try our best to signpost you to another relevant service should we not be able to assist directly.

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Pregnancy in Mind

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Face-to-face, Telephone, Online

Partners / fathers, Race / Ethnicity / Culture / Faith, LGBTQIA+, Young parents, Baby Loss

Pregnancy in Mind is a service delivered by the NSPCC which supports parents-to-be with their mental health. Pregnancy in Mind is a preventative mental health service that helps support expectant parents who have or are at risk of mild to moderate anxiety or depression. It uses a range of approaches including mindfulness, active relaxation and peer support. Parents-to-be can be referred to the programme between 12 and 26 weeks gestation.

  • Those with a prior history of anxiety and / or depression or a family history of mental health problems

  • Those with a history of childhood adversity (e.g. neglect, abuse etc or having experienced poor parenting themselves)

  • Those with a lack of social support

  • Those experiencing a poor relationship quality with their partner

  • Experiencing an unplanned or unexpected pregnancy

  • Having experienced prior complications in pregnancy or loss etc

There does not have to be a medical diagnosis of anxiety and / or depression to qualify for support.

Referral Process

To find out more information or make a referral please give us a call on 0127 438 1440.

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0127 438 1440

Snowdrop Doulas

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Face-to-face, Telephone, Online

General Perinatal Mental Health Support

Set up in 2011, following lived experience of perinatal mental illness, Snowdrop Doula CIC was founded to provide holistic support to pregnant women and new mothers.  We now provide our award winning service across the UK in various ways. Providing specialist Doula and Counselling support to all in need, regardless of financial situation. Our unique model of support has been shown to improve birth outcomes, health and wellbeing of women and their families.  Accredited training available.

Referral Process

We accept self referrals and professional referrals - support@snowdropdoula.co.uk

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Willow's Rainbow Box

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Baby Loss

Willow’s Rainbow Box is a Registered Charity that aims to support women, birthing people and families experiencing pregnancy following a loss through miscarriage, termination, stillbirth or neonatal death. The primary activity is the provision of a comfort box to help reduce anxiety and to promote positive mental health and well-being. These are currently provided England-wide and we also provide online support and resources for people throughout the UK.

Referral Process

People are welcome to email us or fill out the contact form on our website to request a box.

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Action on Postpartum Psychosis

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Face-to-face, Telephone, Online

Perinatal Psychosis, Race / Ethnicity / Culture / Faith, Partners / fathers

Action on Postpartum Psychosis is the national charity for women and families affected by psychosis in the perinatal period.

We offer information, resources and peer support via: an online forum; one to one support (email, video, phone & in person);  creative workshops and regional social groups.

Our regional social groups are currently being run in Birmingham, Lancashire & South Cumbria, London, North East & North Cumbria, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sussex & Hampshire, Wales and Yorkshire.

APP also has NHS partnerships in some areas, with embedded peer supporters in perinatal community teams and mother and baby units, along with cafe groups. To find out more about the NHS partnership projects visit this link.

Referral Process

Information about our peer support is here, including an online form you can fill out to request support.

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Hannah's House

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Face-to-face, Online

Baby Loss, Race / Ethnicity / Culture / Faith

Hannah’s House is a charity supporting parents and their children through any kind of baby loss. We provide a safe haven for bereaved parents, giving them a place to work through their grief and find hope again. Whether your loss is recent, or some time ago, at Hannah’s House there is room for you here. We offer peer support, one-to-one or group Grief Recovery Method counselling, sibling support bags, birthday party memory kits and online support groups. Our face-to-face support is in Coventry/Warwickshire and our online support is available to anyone in the UK.

Referral Process

To self refer into our service please visit our website and complete the online form

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Maddie's Miracle

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Online

Feeding Support

Maddie's Miracle is a charity that offers skilled, qualified, practical breastfeeding support to resolve pain and other feeding challenges for both parent and baby, providing emotional and wellbeing support and reducing mental distress.

A support session may help mothers/parents with breastfeeding anxiety, feelings of lack of confidence, a sense of isolation or loneliness, or breastfeeding grief for mothers who did not feed their baby the way they wished to and are processing their emotions around their experiences.

Our beneficiaries have called our services 'life saving' and cited improved sense of wellbeing, improved mental health and reduced sense of isolation or loneliness.

We provide free online video One-to-One Sessions with trained Breastfeeding Counsellors & Lactation Consultants that are available to anyone living in the UK.

We have a physical in-person breastfeeding support group in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire which also provides emotional support surrounding breastfeeding and infant feeding. This group also encourages parents to build a network of support which is shown to be beneficial to parents’ well-being

Referral Process

We ask that people in need of support send us a message via our Facebook inbox. This inbox is monitored by Breastfeeding Counsellors and Lactation Consultants who can provide direct support via messenger and email and arrange a one-to-one Zoom video session with you.

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My Birth Support CIC

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Online, Face-to-face, Podcast

General Perinatal Mental Health Support, Partners / fathers, LGBTQIA+, Baby Loss, Race / Ethnicity / Culture / Faith, Neurodiversity

My Birth Support CIC provides support in and around Canterbury, helping parents to flourish and thrive by offering affordable bespoke childbirth preparation, birth trauma recovery, parenting and infant loss support in groups or 1:1, online or face-to-face. We also tailor specialist support for couples and we have a podcast called 'After My Birth', which offers tools, strategies and top tips to help you come to terms with transition after birth. Everything we offer is on a pay-what-you-can basis.

Referral Process

Our services operate mainly on a self-referral basis and are suitable and available to all with mild to moderate mental health issues and those who support you. You can see current group sessions on the events page of our website and please get in touch by email with any enquiries: aileen@mybirth.org.uk

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PANDAS

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Face-to-face, Telephone, Online

General Perinatal Mental Health Support

PANDAS offer hope, empathy and support for parents affected by perinatal mental illness. PaNDAS is a community offering peer-to-peer support for individuals, families and their networks. There are a variety of different support services available, all run by a trained team of PaNDAS volunteers who are here to help.

Our free helpline is open every day between 11am and 10pm. It is maintained by trained volunteers who will be happy to chat and direct / signpost to the correct support. There is also a text support service which is free and will not appear on any phone bills. You don't need to register, download an app or use mobile data.

Additionally, we have an email service if anyone needs any information or support. The email support team are available 365 days a year.

There's also a number of face-to-face support groups that are led by a group leader and are specifically tailored around mental health equally.

Referral Process

For referrals, use the following number: 11am - 10pm - 0808 1961 776 or email: info@pandasfoundation.org.uk

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Pregnancy Sickness Support

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Telephone, Online

Pregnancy Sickness (hyperemesis gravidarum)

Pregnancy Sickness Support was founded in 2002 and is the only registered UK charity working to improve care, treatment and support for women and pregnant people suffering from nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) and the severe form of the condition, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). We are currently a small charity and rely heavily on donations and fundraising but we are growing rapidly thanks to the hard work and dedication of our small team and supporters.

Referral Process

Sufferers or partners / carers can refer directly to us for support. No need for formal referring for general support. However, there is a short application form for counselling followed by a simple assessment. Find out more here

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Singing Mamas CIC

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Face-to-face

General Perinatal Mental Health Support

Singing Mamas CIC is a UK based, non-profit movement for maternal wellbeing.  Our aim is to empower women and mothers to improve their wellbeing by creating song-sharing communities through our network of Singing Mamas Leaders.

Our network of leaders welcome women of all ages and life stages to come along to a group, incl. mothers, caregivers, aunties, grandmas and non-mothers.

The Singing Mamas Leader network is made up of mothers, nurses, doctors, midwives, birth workers, musicians, teachers and community workers.

We deliver projects in partnership with NHS health services, and train women and health professionals in singing for wellbeing.

Our bespoke Singing Mamas On Prescription (SMOP) programme, often delivered in partnership with a localised health services, supports perinatal women with children up to the age of two years old.

Referral Process

Any woman is welcome to join a Singing Mamas group, please check where your nearest Singing Mamas Leader is based by visiting the link shown below.   If you would like to know more about accessing a Singing Mamas On Prescription programme, please contact us at info@singingmamaschoir.com or visit our website to find out what's on.

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Support ME Maternal Project CIC

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Online, Face-to-face

Race / Ethnicity / Culture / Faith

Support ME is a grassroots organisation supporting Polish-speaking and Muslim families to get culturally appropriate and equal maternity care. Our aims are to reduce birth trauma and perinatal mental health conditions and provide infant feeding and postnatal support in the community. We support families, run a unique Doula Training Programme and deliver CPD for healthcare professionals. We also offer free access to our online Bump To Baby antenatal course to Black, Asian and non-native English speakers.

We offer face-to-face support for the Polish community in Newark and the Muslim community in Nottingham. Our online support is available to people from these communities across the UK.

Referral Process

We accept self-referrals and professional referrals either via the contact form on our website, email, or message on Facebook / Instagram. The relevant project lead will then be in touch within five days with information on what support is available.

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Alternative Options

Talk to your healthcare professional about options

  • If you are currently pregnant or your baby is less than 10 days old, your community midwife will be able help

  • If your baby is older than 10 days, your health visitor will be able to help

  • Your GP is available and can also advise on local services and treatment options

 

Find a different kind of service

There are organisations with different specialisms who may be able to help you at this time. See our page of Additional Services.

Find an NHS Talking Therapy Service

In every area of England, the NHS offers Talking Therapy services, which may support recovery and are accessible to everyone over the age of 18. Click here to find your local service.

For more information about perinatal mental health and explanations about terms and references check our FAQs.

Crisis Advice

Please note that we are not a crisis service so if you feel like you need urgent help, then get in contact with organisations who can support you right now. 

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