Mental Health Support

For QUT Students

Mental Health Nurse

Need help improving your mental health but don't know where to start?  Feeling worried or anxious?  It's OK to ask for help.

QUT Mental Health Nurses work with students to help them find and navigate appropriate mental health support services. This free and confidential service provides individual support for emerging and enduring mental health conditions that are significantly impacting a student’s ability to function and succeed at university. Our nurses provide interim and intensive support while students are being linked to longer-term services, assess their mental health support needs, and connect them with appropriate and relevant mental health services.

This service is exclusive to QUT students only.

To book an appointment with the Mental Health Nurse, phone 3138 3161 or visit reception.

Student Services Counselling

The doctors and nurses of the QUT Medical Centre are always open to discussing and helping you with any of your mental health concerns - such as depression, anxiety or other concerns. We provide a safe, friendly, confidential and non-judgmental environment. QUT Medical Centre doctors can refer patients to Psychologists or Psychiatrists as appropriate. We also work in conjunction with the QUT Student Counselling Services.

QUT Student Counselling Services 
Phone: 3138 2019 
Email: studentservices@qut.edu.au
Book an appointment with an Accommodation Officer, Counsellor or Triage Adviser (Welfare Support)

For QUT Staff

QUT Employee Assistance Program

QUT staff are able to access the QUT Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers staff four free confidential sessions with a Psychologist. Assure Programs has been a leading provider in the Employee Assistance field for over 10 years, they offer flexibility with regards to times to meet the demands of busy people and offer a choice of male and female counsellors. All counsellors are well credentialed and highly skilled.

Call 1800 808 374 or visit assure programs

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a practice of consciously bringing our attention and awareness to the present-moment experience with curiosity and kindness. It is being aware of and accepting all our experiences including sensations, feelings and thoughts in a non-judgemental way.

Our mindfulness course includes both online modules and in-person classes. You can access all the modules, in-person classes and facilitation for the full experience or just explore the resources and learn at your own pace.

Enrol in our online Mindfulness course

For Everyone

Your Mental Wellbeing

Taking some ‘me time’ is important. And it also helps strengthen your mental wellbeing.

Your mental wellbeing is the unique way that you handle your emotions, respond to stress and also your general outlook on life. Having a healthy sense of mental wellbeing has many benefits. It lifts your mood, promotes resilience in difficult situations and helps you get the most out of life.

Find out more at Your Mind, a QLD Health Initiative

Some useful links

  • beyondblue
    is an organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia
  • Black Dog Institute
    is a translational research institute that aims to reduce the incidence of mental illness and the stigma around it, to actively reduce suicide rates and empower everyone to live the most mentally healthy lives possible.
  • Bite Back
    is a new and ever-changing space where you can discover ways to amplify the good stuff in life, share real and personal stories with others, check out videos, blogs and interviews of interesting people, check and track your mental fitness, and get your teeth stuck into a bunch of activities!
  • Depression.com.au
    operates around the clock improving the mental health and well-being of people impacted by mild to moderate depression through
    • free counselling, peer support and assistance for people dealing with depression
    • a working well peer support service specifically for people dealing with depression in the workplace
    • the information service, which provides people with the right tools to locate information on resources, causes of depression and treatment options
    The professional services are delivered by qualified staff and registered Psychologists, Counsellors and trained volunteers. Depression.com.au aims to assist clients, families, friends and carers impacted by depression in a collaborative, safe and non-judgemental way.
  • E-couch
    provides information about emotional problems - what causes them, how to prevent them and how to treat them. It includes exercises to help you understand yourself and others better. Even better, it provides you with a set of strategies that might help you to improve your life.
  • eheadspace
    is a confidential, free and secure space where young people 12-25 or their family can chat, email or speak on the phone with a qualified youth mental health professional.
  • headspace
    is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. They help young people who are going through a tough time. Looking for someone to talk to? If you're 12-25, you can get health advice, support and information from headspace. With centres all around Australia, maybe headspace can help you.
  • Lifeline
    provides 24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention services. Phone 13 11 14
  • MensLine Australia
    is a professional telephone and online support and information service for Australian men. Phone 1300 789 978
  • Embrace Multicultural Mental Health
    provides a national focus for advice and support to providers and governments on mental health and suicide prevention for people from Culturally And Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds.
  • moodgym
    is like an interactive self-help book which helps you to learn and practice skills which can help to prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety.
  • OnTrack
    aims to support the Australian community to achieve mental and physical health and well-being. This is achieved in several unique ways. Quizzes, information, referrals and programs.  It is a national, independent, not-for-profit organisation.
  • QLife - Living Proud
    is Australia's first nationally-oriented counselling and referral service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people. The project will provide nation-wide, early intervention, peer supported telephone and web based services to diverse people of all ages experiencing poor mental health, psychological distress, social isolation, discrimination, experiences of being misgendered and/or other social determinants that impact on their health and well-being.
  • Rape & Domestic Violence
    Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia provides 24/7 telephone and online crisis counselling for anyone - women and men - in Australia who has experienced or is at risk of sexual assault, family or domestic violence and their non offending supporters. Phone 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732)
  • Full Stop Australia  
    Full Stop Australia is one of the country's leading sexual, domestic and family violence response and recovery services. Providing support, education, and advocacy for people suffering from sexual, domestic and family violence.
  • ReachOut.com
    is Australia's leading online youth mental health service. It's the perfect place to start if you're not sure where to look. Every year it helps hundreds of thousands of young Australians with information support and stories on everything from finding your motivation, through to getting through really tough times.
  • Relationships Australia
    Relationships Australia is a leading provider of relationship support services for individuals, families and communities.
  • Sleep Hygiene
    We all need it but sometimes we short-change ourselves when it comes to sleep, yet a lack of sleep affects our memory, mood and general cognition.