Mental health support
It is important to look after your emotional and mental health during pregnancy.
Support is available from several organisations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You can find out how to access adult mental health services in Birmingham.
Help in Birmingham
Birmingham Forward Steps (for children 0 to 5 years old)
Birmingham Forward Steps' health visiting service supports mental and emotional health as part of their universal plus and universal partnership plus services.
Birmingham Mind
The Birmingham Mind helpline provides advice, information, and signposting to:
- people with mental health issues
- carers
- professionals
- the general public
Their staff help people access the support they need on issues such as health and social care, to enhance personal wellbeing.
To speak to someone, you can phone 0121 262 3555. The helpline is open every day from 9am to 11pm.
Birmingham Healthy Minds
Birmingham Healthy Minds offers mental health services to people across Birmingham, Solihull, and beyond.
They provide specialist support on perinatal mental health at their mother and baby unit.
You can find out more about the perinatal services Birmingham Healthy Minds offers.
You can also find more information on this downloadable PDF.
Forward Thinking Birmingham
Forward Thinking Birmingham is a mental health service that provides support, assessment, and intervention for people under 25 years old who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
Acacia
Acacia Acacia's trained staff and volunteers provide many support services to help mums and families experiencing perinatal depression.
You can learn more about the programmes available from different locations around Birmingham.
Help from national organisations
Tommy's
Tommy's has a tool that creates a wellbeing plan to help you look after yourself throughout and after your pregnancy.
Bethel Network
Bethan Network provides help and emotional support to vulnerable, isolated, and asylum-seeking women in Birmingham who are pregnant.
You can find out more about the services Bethel Network provides.
The Spearhead Trust
The Spearhead Trust is a voluntary organisation that addresses social issues within the community by engaging with families and those in need from different cultured backgrounds.
They have family support and befriending services that can support people during and after pregnancy.
Post Natal Depression Awareness and Support (PANDAS)
PANDAS are available to offer hope, empathy, and support for every parent or family affected by perinatal mental illness.
They are a community offering peer-to-peer support for you, your family, and your network.
Better Health
Every mind matters is an initiative providing information on why it is important to be kind to yourself and how to make sure you are feeling your best.
The support ranges from physical activity to self-help cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques.
Action on Postpartum Psychosis
Action on Postpartum Psychosis is a peer support service that connects you with people who have been through it themselves.
They can support you if:
- you have experienced postpartum psychosis (PP)
- you have experienced high mood or mania after the birth of your child
- you are a partner or family member of someone who has experienced PP
Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle is a therapeutic service which supports birth parents who have lost a child or more to adoption.
To contact Breaking the Cycle, you can email BreakingtheCycle@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk.
Samaritans
Samaritans are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to listen to anyone, whatever they are going through.
Widowed and Young (WAY)
WAY is a charity for people 50 years old and older who have lost their partner.
WAY's website provides bereavement support resources.
Page last updated: 19 December 2023
