Free mental health support tool launches today

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the end of World War Two while in the amidst of another, different global crisis. Seventy five years ago, in scenes that we cannot imagine under current lockdown rules, more than one million people lined the streets across the UK to celebrate the final surrender. Although people would face more uncertainty, grief and economic decline, the post-war years also brought relative peace, reconstruction and the foundation of the National Health Service - an organisation we have probably never been more grateful for than now, for all its flaws.

What people were celebrating most, though, I think, was the resurgence of hope. The end of the devastation and the bombing meant that recuperation and rejuvenation could finally begin. Today, with our light at the end of the tunnel yet to shine, and with many NHS services overwhelmed, I want to offer a little bit of brightness.

Launching today, helpers is a free, online mental health support tool built by volunteer frontline NHS psychologists. Designed to be used by two or more people in conversation, this six week course is delivered over email and combines short and simple behavioural nudges with longer weekly sessions to help provide peer emotional support during this pandemic.  

Available from today, for FREE, check out the press release here, or go straight to the website here for more information and to sign up! Share using @helperstools on Instagram and Twitter to enable your community to provide crucial psychological support to itself - without needing to wait. And if you want a head start on thinking about wellbeing, check out my page on the basics. 

Enjoy!

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