Mental health

Our mental health advisers can work with you if you are struggling with your mental health. Support is available for a huge range of difficulties, including, but not limited to anxiety, depression, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm. We offer assessment appointments, advice, and signposting to various services. All our mental health advisers are professionally trained and experienced practitioners who have previously worked in the NHS and are members of The University Mental Health Advisers Network.

Wellbeing

Our wellbeing advisors provide information, advice, and support for your wellbeing – which means anything that is negatively affecting you. We provide assessments, follow-up appointments and signposting, and can liaise with both internal and external services to help support you in your studies, including with academic departments. Wellbeing advisers can provide advice in many areas, such as alcohol and drug use, safety concerns, stalking and harassment, forced marriage, victims of crime and domestic violence.

Counselling

Our team of counsellors provide therapeutic counselling of the highest quality to help you with your studies and student life, covering a wide range of issues and difficulties such as anxiety, panic attacks, family problems, cultural issues, homesickness, insomnia, loneliness, relationships, suicidal thoughts and more. Whatever your difficulty, you are welcome, and you will be treated with respect.

Deaf Students Contacts

Lancashire has a few departments focusing on deaf studies such as, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies: islandsinfo@uclan.ac.uk, BSL and Deaf Studies department: RCollins12@lancashire.ac.uk,the consortium of Higher Education Support Services with Deaf Students (CHESS): JYang9@uclan.ac.uk

How to contact us

Student Drop-In

Our friendly team are ready to support you at the Drop-In and can refer you to and make appointments with our specialist teams within the university including Counsellors, Mental Health Advisors, and our specialist Wellbeing Team.

Call the drop-in reception desk on 01772 895678 to enquire about mental health and wellbeing appointments.

Call or email

Contact us by emailing wellbeing@uclan.ac.uk or telephone us on 01772 893020. Our email and voicemail are monitored during our office opening hours only:

• Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm,
• Friday 9am – 4pm.

If we are unable to answer your call, please leave a voicemail and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Make An Appointment

Alternatively, use our Student Support Portal to book an appointment

Outside of normal opening hours

You can contact our security team 24 hours a day on 01772 892068. Deaf users please text 07891 679 537. The security team are trained to support students with wellbeing and mental health concerns.

Visit our Student Support Homepage for more information and guidance.