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New research from Kooth and The Diana Award: 1 in 3 young people being bullied don't tell their parents

Buckinghamshire Council commissions Qwell - Kooth's digital mental health support for adults - for local residents.

Kooth brings free 24/7 mental health support to Buckinghamshire adults after Council commissions its ‘Qwell’ service 

The role of goal setting in digital mental health interventions for young people

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The latest report on Qwell, Kooth’s digital mental health platform for adults, highlights how digital platforms can improve access to timely care, ensuring adults get the right support at the right time. 


How Qwell is helping adults access the mental health support they need

We believe AI has vast potential to improve mental health. For us, technology is a bridge to better outcomes, not an end in itself. That’s why we’re exploring AI tools deliberately and ethically — grounded in evidence, with clear guardrails to assess and manage risk.

Building trust in AI: why safeguards matter for mental health

This World Mental Health Day, we’re focusing on a simple but effective idea: creating your own ‘emotional first aid kit.’ Just like a physical first aid kit helps with cuts and scrapes, an emotional one can give you tools to calm your mind and manage stress when things get tough.


How to build your emotional first aid kit

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Not all access is equal: why widening access to effective digital support matters 

Kooth, the UK’s largest digital mental health support service, has been commissioned by ABL Health to provide young people aged 10 -18 in Swindon with free mental health support, with no waiting lists.

ABL Health commissions Kooth to bring its free mental health support to young people across Swindon

An inside look: How we keep young people safe on our platform

Research shows us that digital mental health interventions should not be considered a fringe alternative to access care. They are an effective resource with the potential to improve wellbeing through increased accessibility, 24/7 availability, and personalisation.

Research, digested: How digital support can boost psychological services

A summary of a research paper looking at how digital tools are enhacing and adding to mental healthcare, citing Kooth and Soluna as key examples.

How digital tools are reshaping mental healthcare

An inside look at Kooth's forums

An inside look at Kooth's mood tracking

Article about the struggles often experienced by children transitioning from year six to year seven and moving to secondary school.

Supporting young people through times of transition

This mental health awareness week, Kooth Digital Health, the UK’s leading digital mental health platform, is pleased to announce a new two-year collaboration with The Little Push 4 Good, a York-based charity helping people improve their mental wellbeing through access to physical and creative activity.

Kooth collaborates with York-based charity ‘The Little Push 4 Good’ 

The growing popularity and evidence of single session interventions for children and young people

Accessible support: The rise of single session therapy

In March 2023, Kooth was awarded a contract by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to build and roll out a brand new mental health support app. This is the story of how we built Soluna.

Soluna: how we built a brand new app for California's young people

An example of how easily-accessed single sessions can make a momentous difference in someone’s life. 

Justin's single session mental health journey

Kooth's safe and welcoming online peer support network reduces loneliness by normalising mental health experiences.


How Kooth's peer support network empowers young people with safety and connection

How Kooth helps people living with neurodivergence

A personal account from a young person who feels unable to go to school due to anxiety. 

Why I find school so difficult: Sasha's story

Compared to other mental health issues, EDs may not be as widespread, but they have the highest mortality rates of all mental health conditions and are, therefore, a major public health concern. This emphasises the need to offer full support to individuals experiencing eating difficulties or disorders.


What are eating disorders and how does Kooth help?

Kooth's Kate Newhouse comments on recent research on generation Z and their experiences with mental health. 

Research findings: Gen Z and mental health

In support of Children's Mental Health Week, we developed youth-inspired content for our social channels, for schools and for service users on our platform. Here are some highlights...

Working with young people to create our Children's Mental Health Week 2025 campaign

The power of self-awareness

Self-diagnosis and prevention

Kooth's digital mental wellbeing support now available to adults across Enfield

Mapping the mental health of the UK’s young people tool

Last week we had the great honour of representing Kooth at an exhibition at the Scottish Parliament.

Kooth discusses mental health with MSPs at the Scottish Parliament 

Is self-care key to preventative mental health?

Can we resolve the mental health crisis with resilience?

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How Kooth is democratising mental health support in Scotland

Online mental health support service, Qwell, joins Southdown’s UOK partnership

Kooth has been shortlisted for its work with Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership and Transport for Greater Manchester in the ‘Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare’ category for the 2025 HSJ Partnership Awards.  


Kooth, Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership and Transport for Manchester shortlisted for HSJ Award

Working with Lincs NHS to support young people on waiting lists

With long waiting lists affecting mental health support, meeting the needs of young patients can be challenging, especially when we know that issues can escalate over time. YoungMinds research shows 58% of young people felt their mental health got worse while waiting for support.
According to The Independent, over 1.5 million adults and over 540,000 children were in contact with mental health services as of March 2024, highlighting the overwhelming demand across all age groups and the strain on timely access to care.

Kooth and Qwell offer a solution: free, confidential online mental health support with no waiting lists or referrals. We are NHS commissioned and BACP accredited, providing safe and professional in-the-moment support.


Guidance for GPs and healthcare practitioners on signposting to Kooth 

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Kooth and The Wave Project – Supporting young people beyond the beach

Extending support to parents and carers in Clackmannanshire

Anti-Bullying Week Posters

Anti-Bullying Week Collection

Resources for University Students

Mental health and wellbeing

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Energetic activities

Grounded activities

A mixed set of group activities for young people and teachers

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Winter Activities (Mixed)

Race, racism and discrimination

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Supporting students through exams

Eating disorders posters

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Depression and Anxiety

Friendships and relationships

Welsh language Kooth posters

Creating therapeutic content to support maternal mental health

Suicide prevention: the critical role of early support

Sam Stables is a farmer in Herefordshire who started the agricultural charity, 'We are Farming Minds', to help raise mental health awareness in rural communities. In this interview, Sam talks about his personal struggles and how he’s learned to ask for help and lighten the load for himself, and for others.

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Suicide awareness: How I learned to step back when things felt impossible

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Providing universal support from ages 10 and up in Greater Manchester

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World Mental Health Day - progress on our pledge

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Kooth and Mind partnership brings easy-to-access mental health support to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance, or EBSNA for short, refers to young people who struggle to attend school because of a range of emotional factors. It’s really important to highlight that EBSA is not about young people being “defiant” or “lazy” - it’s a complex issue with no one single cause.

What is EBSNA and how does it impact children and young people?

The Kooth Future Council. is a competition aimed at finding young people to join our first-ever youth-powered content team. This unique opportunity equips 15-18-year-olds with valuable skills in video editing, content creation, and leadership.


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Kooth calls on young people to get creative for a spot on the Kooth Future Council

Lord Darzi report: Prevention is key

Kooth’s demonstrates measurable mental health improvements

Responding to NHS Providers report: Early intervention and prevention is the best approach to address mental health crisis

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Integrated Digital Pathway Pilots: outcomes and evaluation

How we keep our service user community safe

Kooth spoke to a parent, Nita, who opened up about her story supporting a child with neurodiversity through adolescence. 

Supporting your child who's coming out

An early look into how Kooth's Integrated Digital Pathway (IDP) scheme can support CAMHS waiting lists through targeted deployment of support services

An early look into Kooth's pilot Integrated Digital Pathway (IDP) co-designed to support CAMHS waiting lists

Teen takeover: creating our Mental Health Awareness Week campaign

Examining concurrent validity and item selection of the Wants and Needs Outcome Measure (SWAN-OM) in a web-based therapy service

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Developing the Adult SWAN-OM 

Kooth spoke to a parent, Mel, who opened up about her story supporting a child with neurodiversity. 

Supporting a neurodiverse child: Mel's story

Supporting a neurodiverse child: Nita's story

As part of our mission to tackle health inequalities, we work directly with underrepresented groups to understand and address the barriers they face and shape our mental health services around what they truly need. This article looks at how we are tackling barriers to mental health support for young Muslims

How Kooth is tackling barriers to mental health support for young Muslims

Kooth spoke to a parent, Jude, who opened up about her story supporting a child with neurodiversity and mental health difficulties. 

Supporting a neurodiverse child with mental health difficulties: Jude's story

Being a carer can be a complicated role, so it’s important to learn how to look after yourself if you are one…

Are you a carer? Finding support in a complex role 

Offering emotional support is a valued quality that many aspire to hold in our relationships… 

Asking for help as a strong black woman

Becoming a parent for the first time is an experience filled with so many emotions…

Becoming a parent when your own childhood was difficult

Kooth's high standards of user safety, governance and assurance

How Kooth’s support model aligns with the findings of the Cass report

Digital mental health service, Qwell, now available to parents and carers in Clackmannanshire

Qwell now available to parents and carers in Clackmannanshire

Why we pre-moderate every piece of content on Kooth 

Collaborating with specialist support organisations

The urgent need for preventative mental health support for young people

Working with students for Children's Mental Health Week

From anonymity to autonomy: How young people feel about Kooth

New online mental health service launches for all adults in Kent and Medway

Pilot evaluation to assess the effectiveness of youth peer community support via the Kooth online mental wellbeing website

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An Evaluation of clinical effectiveness - Kooth’s community and chat based support

World Mental Health Day: Kooth’s Pledge to Underserved Communities

How Kooth is responding to feedback and remaining at the forefront of innovation in digital mental health

Giving Young People a Voice to Inform Digital Services

Mental health support is available to help relieve the stress of exam results day

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Mental health and emotional wellbeing support for young people during summer via  Kooth.com

The “one at a time” approach assumes the young person may not return for further sessions and focuses on providing an effective, solution-focused therapeutic contact to address the young person’s wants and needs. 

One and done - scaling mental health support with single sessions

Working alongside Muslim communities

This report utilised data from the first five months of this pioneering pilot demonstrates the value, as well as the need, in having Kooth available as a digital mental health and wellbeing service across whole-school districts in Pennsylvania. Key education-based stakeholders in school districts involved in this pilot program have reiterated the increasing mental health needs of their students, which outstrip the current resource in many of their schools, and alongside leading academics, have shown support for Kooth as a digital platform to provide mental health and wellbeing support to their students. This report provides early evidence around how Kooth can (1) improve access to mental health and wellbeing services, (2) reduce the need for downstream intervention with early help, (3) enable the use of other services, and (4) impact the school system, at a student and organisational level.

Impacts on an individual and systemic level

A case study focusing on the impact of Pennsylvania’s whole-school approach

Case study: The impact of a whole-school approach

Using Kooth’s data, this paper explores the impact of the pandemic on service access and presenting concerns and whether differences were observed by sociodemographic characteristics in terms of access (gender, ethnicity and deprivation). 

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Changes to digital mental health use during COVID-19

Engagement of individuals aged 14–25 years with a digital mental health service during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a cohort study of service usage data. A collaborative research paper between Kooth and University of Swansea


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Community is key - facilitating changing priorities of young people during COVID-19

Using AI to address challenges in digital mental health moderation

The design and development of an experience measure for a peer community moderated forum in a digital mental health service

A way to measure outcomes from community engagement - introducing the POCEM

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New research from Kooth and The Diana Award: 1 in 3 young people being bullied don't tell their parents

Kooth brings free 24/7 mental health support to Buckinghamshire adults after Council commissions its ‘Qwell’ service

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