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Counselling &
Support Services - 
mental health support

Tap to call any number on this page if you're on a device that can make phone calls. 

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In an immediate crisis call 000

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Queer focussed support services

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Rainbow Door

A free helpline run by Switchboard Victoria which supports LGBTQA+ Victorians, their friends and family. 

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Available 7 days a week between 10am- 6pm 

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Phone: 1800 729 367

Text: 0480 017 246

Email: support@rainbowdoor.com.au 

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QLife

Switchboard provides free telephone and web peer-led counselling, information and referral service through QLife. 

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Available between 3pm and 12 midnight every day of the week. 

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Phone: 1800 184 527

chat online via the QLife website 

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Counselling services 

Queerspace

Low or no cost confidential counselling services to support LGBTIQ+ communities and their families. 

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Phone: (03) 9663 6733 to see how they can support you. 

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Thorne Harbour Health

A range of services for LGBTIQ+ including counselling, medical services, community support and more. Call their intake team to see how they can support you. 

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Phone: (03) 9865 6700 or 1800 134 840 (free for country callers) 

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Other services  

Men’s Referral Service - Family Violence Counselling Line


Phone: 1300 76 64 91
ntv.org.au

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More mental health resources

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the Wurundjeri People of The Kulin Nation. We recognise their strength and resilience and pay our respects
to Elders past and present. We also pay our respects to the First Nations members of The Shed,
and to any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people who may be reading this.

Sovereignty was never ceded.


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