If you’re feeling stressed, anxious or low you’re not alone. Around 1 in 4 adults struggle with mental health challenges. Help is available to you.

SilverCloud by Amwell® is a free online mental health support service available through NHS Wales without a GP referral. Through SilverCloud, you can access a range of guided self-help programmes to help you manage and improve your mental health and wellbeing. There’s support for mild-to-moderate anxiety, depression, stress, sleep difficulties and more.

Each programme uses techniques based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) which works by encouraging you to challenge the way you think and behave so that you’re better equipped to deal with life’s problems.

You can sign up online and choose one of the easy-to-use, interactive online mental health and wellbeing programmes to complete over 12 weeks.  Although an online self-help service, SilverCloud® programmes are backed up and supported by a team of NHS staff trained in the delivery of online mental health support. Once signed up, a ‘SilverCloud® Supporter’ will guide you through the programme, providing written feedback and advice every two weeks via online message

Download the programme booklet here or sign up here: SilverCloud. Making Space For Healthy Minds (silvercloudhealth.com)

Wild Skills Wild Spaces is a pioneering and award-winning project that boosts people’s mental and physical wellbeing by reconnecting them with nature.

A partnership between Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, Powys Teaching Health Board and Cardiff Metropolitan University, this exciting ecotherapy programme enables participants to learn new skills, build confidence and meet other like-minded individuals through nature-based outdoor activities, such as wildlife walks, hands-on conservation work, bushcraft and produce-growing.

The weekly ecotherapy programme comprises practical, hands-on sessions delivered by a friendly and fully trained team. These sessions take place at uplifting, wildlife rich sites across Powys, including several of Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust’s nature reserves, and include a wide variety of activities to appeal to all.

Wild Skills Wild Spaces is designed for young people and adults living in Powys who are struggling with their mental health, whether that’s depression, anxiety, social isolation or low self-esteem. The free, inclusive sessions are ideal for those who wouldn’t usually engage in outdoor activities and/or prescribed therapeutic interventions, and they allow individuals to go at their own pace.

You can self-refer to this service - please click on the link opposite to complete the referral form.