Yasmin Kapadia has facilitated a number of peer support groups for MindOut including one for BAME service users. We are very happy that she will be facilitating our LGBTQ PoC peer support group starting in February. She also runs a private practice as an Integrative Transpersonal counsellor and works as a mental health mentor at … Read more
Since lockdown, we have been trialling new ways to help our community to connect with each other and have introduced weekly online peer support groups. If you’re feeling lonely, anxious or low, then we can help. Our peer support sessions help people who have had similar life experiences a chance to come together and offer … Read more
If you are struggling with the pressures of life in a Covid/Lockdown world and would like to talk this through with other people feeling the same, then please do get in touch. We will be running: Lockdown/Covid themed workshops Loneliness and isolation Managing fear and anxiety Self-care and staying safe Lockdown/Covid peer support groups The … Read more
Many LGBTQ people have experienced suicidal thoughts For some of us these may be about closing down and coming around again once the pain or hurt of something passes. For others, these thoughts may be reoccurring or constant and may lead to high levels of distress where plans are made to harm ourselves or end … Read more
If you are lesbian, gay, bi, trans or queer and: – in paid employment and worried about your mental health – experiencing anxiety, depression or stress at work or at home – concerned about your work/life balance – feeling isolated with these issues …and think by talking and listening to other people with shared identities … Read more
Read here Kat writing about how the groups at MindOut that have kept her afloat
MindOut has spaces in two groups coming up – one for Bi peple and one for LGBTQ under 30s
Di talks about how being bullied at work and financial problems led to severe depression and how the help she has received from MindOut has enabled her to cope
MindOut will be starting a new peer support group for Bi people with experience of mental health issues in June. The group will be confidential, non-judgmental and free. The group aims to be a place where it is safe to both identify as Bi and have mental health concerns. When: thursday afternoons. If you … Read more
