Pathways to external wrap around support

The Student Wellbeing Service partners with local organisations, and external services across health and social care. Our partnerships bring together a range of experience and expertise to help improve accessibility and to provide you with the care and support you need. 

Here are the various local organisations that we regularly use and refer students to. You can self-refer directly to some of them too.

All Saints

All Saints Counselling Service
All Saints is a confidential, professional and affordable Counselling Service for those living in the Portsmouth area. They offer a blended service of face-to-face and remote counselling. They charge a small fee for counselling depending on your income - this is discussed in the assessment.

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.

PARCS (Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Services)

Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service (PARCS) provides FREE specialist counselling and psychotherapy for people who have experienced sexual and/or domestic abuse, based in the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire area.

PARCS also provides the following services: 

• Counselling for parents, carers and family members 
• Helplines 
• Emotional Telephone Support 
• Specialist support groups 
• Training, consultation and clinical supervision 
• Awareness and prevention services 
• Independent Sexual Violence Advocacy (ISVA) for children and young people
• Services to support young people who display harmful sexual behaviour

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, their services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.

Positive Minds

PositiveMinds offers informal support for anyone who feels low, worried or hopeless in Portsmouth or needs help with issues such as housing, money, relationships, work, bereavement, or living away from home at university. Their trained Advisors have lived through difficulties themselves, and can relate to how you are feeling.
They offer 1:1 support and workshops and provide a 'tell us once' system so that a chat with them can get you connected to relevant organisations around the city, like Society of St. James, Citizens Advice and Talking Change, without having to explain yourself again and again.

• This is not a crisis service.

Recovery College

Solent Recovery College - Mental Health and Wellbeing courses and training in Portsmouth
Enrol in the school of life. Learn about yourself and your recovery through a unique range of courses and short sessions. The Solent Recovery College can help you become an expert in managing mental health and empower you to take control of your recovery journey. Taught in a classroom setting and now online via Zoom, the courses aren’t therapy; they’re an opportunity to learn new skills in an educational environment.

Some of the courses offered are: 

• First steps to recovery
• Supporting someone else’s recovery
• Skills for life
• Coping in a crisis
• Life after lockdown
• Understanding anxiety
• Understanding depression
• Understanding bipolar
• Understanding mindfulness
• Understanding obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Understanding personality disorder
• Understanding self-harm

And many more

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.

Recovery Hub

The Portsmouth Drug and alcohol Recovery Hub is a one-stop confidential adult drug and alcohol treatment service available to anyone who lives in Portsmouth concerned about their own or a loved one’s drug and/or alcohol use.

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.

Talking Change

Talking Change is the primary care mental health service for Portsmouth. If you’re struggling with low mood or anxiety, or with a physical condition such as chronic pain or fatigue, they provide FREE talking therapies to help you cope and feel better. 
Talking Change offers 1:1 therapy, courses and workshops, self-help resources and employment advice.

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.

UPSU: The Advice Service

The Students Union Advice Service offers confidential, impartial and non-judgemental support. The Advice Service can help you with all sorts of academic issues like:

• Extenuating circumstances
• Academic appeals
• Code of student behaviour
• Complaints
• Transferring university / course
• Suspending your studies 
• Withdrawing from university
• Keeping safe

And much more.

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer via the online request form. This is not a crisis service.

YOU Counselling Centres: The You Trust

YOU Counselling Centres: The You Trust Counselling with You, STAR Counselling, and Paragon

The You Trust offer a variety of therapeutic support:

Counselling with You

This is a Portsmouth-only team offering generic counselling for adults in Portsmouth. They ask for a small fee for your sessions which will be discussed in the initial assessment and they will not turn you away. To refer yourself, download the Referral Form for ‘Counselling with You’ from their website

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.

STAR Counselling - Sexual Trauma and Recovery Counselling

Sexual Trauma and Recovery Counselling team working across the South of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight with people who have experienced recent or historic rape, sexual assault or sexual abuse. They offer FREE 1:1 counselling and work with cis and transgender adults, young people and children. 

They also run specifically designed groups and hold them for mixed genders, single sex, people who identify under the LGBTQ+ umbrella and children and young people. To refer yourself, download the Referral Form for ‘STAR Counselling’ from their website.

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.

Paragon

PARAGON is the domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking team within You Trust. PARAGON (formerly You First) are a specialist team working together empowering change for individuals, families, and our communities.

• Please see their website for the most up to date information, services, how to get in touch, and to self-refer. This is not a crisis service.