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Support at UTS

Staff at UTS can access the Employee Assistance Program, which includes a counselling service. For further details, contact Staff Services.

UTS students who would like to see a counsellor can contact UTS: Counselling to make an appointment.

External resources

  • Mensline Australia (opens an external site)
    1300 78 99 78
    Mensline Australia supports men who are dealing with family and relationship difficulties, particularly around family breakdown and separation. They have a 24 hour, 7 day a week telephone helpline for men available at the cost of a local call.
  • Lifeline Sydney & Sutherland (opens an external site)
    Lifeline NSW has a network of centres across the state. The network offeres telephone counselling on 131114 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can also offer face to face counselling by appointment. Face to face services include financial counselling, problem gambling counselling, relationship counselling, substance abuse counselling and suicide prevention and suicide bereavement support.
  • SANE (opens an external site)
    SANE is a national charity running campaigns, offering education and undertaking research to improve the lives of people living with a mental illness.
    Helpline 1800 18 SANE (7263) for information and advice 9-5 weekdays.
  • Headspace (opens an external site)
    Headspace is Australia's national youth mental health foundation. The organisation provides mental and health wellbeing support, information and services to young people aged 12-25, and their families. Headspace has 30 centres across Australia.
  • Counselling Online (opens an external site)
    Counselling Online provides professional drug and alcohol counselling for people mis-using drugs and alcohol, their families and their friends.
  • beyondblue (the national depression initiative) (opens an external site)
    For information, self help guides, events news and other resources for people with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders.
  • Schizophrenia Fellowship of New South Wales (SFNSW) (opens an external site)
    Information and support for families and people living with schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder or any other mental illness.
  • Black Dog Institute (opens an external site)
    The Black Dog Institute is a not-for-profit, educational, research, clinical and community-oriented facility offering specialist expertise in depression and Bipolar Disorder.
  • Mental Health Association (opens an external site)
  • Mental Health Council of Australia (opens an external site)
  • ABC Health & Wellbeing - Don't stress (opens an external site)