Kooth
Kooth is an online platform to help young people with their mental health and wellbeing.
It’s a welcoming space to safely explore your feelings. You can anonymously talk to other people your own age on moderated discussion forums, and chat to mental health professionals via messaging.
We’re a BACP-accredited digital mental health service, and provide free services through the NHS.
We believe in you
Everyone should be able to access mental health support when they need it.
But it’s not always easy to ask for help.
Kooth is a great place to start.
You can explore your feelings, find support and advice, and take the first step to recovery.
If our team feel that a specialist service would be more helpful for you, we’ll suggest some useful support services to contact.
Our Services
1
Chat with a professional
Chats are all text-based, so you don’t need to show your face or worry about body language. Writing about your feelings can feel less intense. It’s not always easy to discuss how we are feeling, but don’t worry. Our practitioners are trained to help you find the words to express yourself.
Our chat service hours are 12pm – 10pm on weekdays, and 6pm-10pm on weekends.
2
Start a journal
When you have finished registering with Kooth, you’ll see a screen asking you how you’re feeling. You can use emojis if you’re not sure how to express yourself in words, or you can write your feelings down. You can select ‘My Journals’ at any time when using Kooth to write your feelings down again. Then, you can look back at them and see how your feelings have changed over time.
3
Share with other young people
Kooth has a safe and welcoming community forum, where you can share your challenges with others who may feel the same way you do. Our forum is pre-moderated, which means one of our team checks every message before it’s posted, to make sure it’s safe and appropriate.
Sometimes, they might need to ask you to rewrite something because they arev worried that it could be triggering to someone vulnerable. If that happens, they’ll write you a message with some suggestions.