Wellbeing Support
Wellbeing Champion
Vicky Coombes
- E: v.coombes@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 703, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA)
We have a number of staff and PhD students trained as MHFA all of which will have received 2-day Adult Mental Health First Aid training from MHFA England. The course equips first aiders with the following skills:
- An in-depth understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect wellbeing
- Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
- Confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress
- Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
- Knowledge to help someone recover their health by guiding them to further support - whether that’s self-help resources, through their employer, the NHS, or a mix
If you'd like a conversation re mental health or need signposting to further support, please contact any of us from the list below.
STAFF
Lucy Belgrave
- E: l.belgrave@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Brioni Best-Wilde
- E: b.best-wilde@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Kari Clark
- E: kari.clark.14@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 809, 8th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Vicky Coombes
- E: v.coombes@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 703, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Josh Friend
Or contact via MS Teams
Joe Hird
- E: j.hird@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Steve Hudziak
- E: s.hudziak@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 902, 9th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Kadambari Rai
- E: kadambari.rai@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 808, 8th Floor Roberts Building
Or contact via MS Teams
Navta Vij
Or contact via MS Teams
Gary Welch
Or contact via MS Teams
PhD STUDENTS
CRISIS SUPPORT
If you're experiencing a mental health or wellbeing crisis and are in immediate risk of harming yourself or someone else call 999 and ask for assistance.
If you're on UCL's main campus or you live in Camden, you can also access Camden & Islington's Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service.
Call their support line on 020 3317 6333
Open 24 hours a day / 7 days a week
Other organisation that can help are:
Samaritans
Phone: 116 123
Web: samaritans.org
E. jo@samaritans.org
Nightline
Web: nightline.org.uk
E: listening@nightline.org.uk