Australian Capital Territory
Access Mental Health
Urgent mental health advice and support.
Crisis support services
Find urgent mental health support.
Immediate danger
Call Triple Zero (000) or go to the nearest hospital emergency department if you or someone else is in immediate danger or cannot safely wait for telephone support.
National urgent support services
These free services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can call for yourself or because you are worried about someone else.
Lifeline
Crisis support and suicide prevention for anyone in Australia experiencing emotional distress.
Suicide Call Back Service
Professional counselling for people with suicidal thoughts, people worried about someone at risk, and people affected by suicide.
13YARN
Culturally safe crisis support with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Crisis Supporter.
State and territory urgent support services
These services provide mental health assessment, triage, advice or referral. They are public mental health access lines, not general counselling services.
New South Wales
NSW Mental Health Line
Urgent mental health advice and support.
Northern Territory
NT Mental Health Line
Urgent mental health advice and support.
Queensland
1300 MH CALL
Urgent mental health advice and support.
South Australia
Mental Health Triage Service
Urgent mental health advice and support.
Tasmania
Access Mental Health
Urgent mental health advice and support.
Victoria
Local mental health triage service
Victoria has area-based public mental health triage services rather than one statewide number.
Use the Victorian directory to find the phone number for your local area.
Western Australia
Mental Health Emergency Response Line and RuralLink
Mental health emergency assessment, support and referral. MHERL serves Perth metropolitan and Peel callers; RuralLink serves regional and remote WA after hours.
Information current as of .