Mental health services

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Urgent mental health and addiction care

If this is an emergency or someone is at risk of injury call 111.

Phone the Mental Health Services 24 Crisis Helpline on 0800 800 717.

After-hours contact numbers:

  • 0800 775 222 to speak to a mental health nurse.
  • 0800 234 432 Peer TALK will connect you with a trained peer support worker.
  • 0800 376 633 Youthline if you are under 18 years of age.
  • Text to Talk freephone or text 1737 for other mental health and addictions phone line support options.

Information and contact numbers for our mental health services

Aronui Ora | Maternal Mental Health

Aronui Ora | Maternal Mental Health includes mental health professionals from the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, social work, occupational therapy, psychotherapy and nursing.

Aronui Ora

Assertive Community Outreach

Assertive Community Outreach provides assertive treatment and support to service users with psychotic and mood disorders who have a pattern of problematic engagement with services and/or treatment recommendations and a history of high risk during periods of relapse.

Assertive Community Outreach Service

Awhi Mātua | Mental Health

Awhi Mātua | Mental Health Services for Older People provides support to help older people experiencing serious mental health problems reach their best possible function and wellness.

Awhi Mātua

Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre

Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre is a specialist 40-bed mental health, recovery-focused, rehabilitation service which provides assessment, treatment and intensive rehabilitation combined with a high level of clinical support in a safe environment.

Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre

Child and Family Unit

Child and Family Unit is an acute psychiatric child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit

Child and Family Unit

Community Mental Health Services - Adult

Community Mental Health Services – Adult provide a range of services for adults with moderate to severe mental illness or psychological distress.

Community Mental Health Services - Adult

Kari Centre

The Kari Centre is a secondary mental health service that provides support for moderate to severe mental health conditions that cause a significant impact on a child/young person’s (rangatahi) functioning.

Kari Centre Community Teams

Lotofale Pacific Mental Health Service

Lotofale Pacific Mental Health Service aims to optimise the mental health and general wellbeing of adult Pacific Islanders in central Auckland who have serious mental health problems.

Lotofale, Pacific Mental Health Service

Manawanui Oranga Hinengaro | Māori Mental Health

Manawanui Oranga Hinengaro | Māori Mental Health is a kaupapa Māori community mental health service for adults run by Te Toka Tumai Auckland.

Manawanui Oranga Hinengaro

Psychiatry – Children's Health

Psychiatry – Children's Health provides psychological and emotional assessment and support to tamariki and rangatahi who have medical or surgical problems and their whānau.

Starship Paediatric Consult Liaison Psychiatry

Rauaroha Segar House

Rauaroha Segar House is a specialist psychotherapy service offering an outpatient day programme of therapeutic interventions.

Segar House - Rauaroha

Regional Dual Disability Service

Regional Dual Disability Service provides support for people with intellectual disability who also have significant mental health concerns.

Regional Dual Disability Service

Tū Māia

Tū Māia provides mental health assessments for young people with a known or suspected mental health disorder who are engaged in offending behaviours and involved with the Justice System.

Tū Māia

Te Whetu Tawera Adult Acute Mental Health Unit

Te Whetu Tawera Adult Acute Mental Health Unit is Te Toka Tumai Auckland’s Acute Mental Health Unit for Adults. It has 58 beds, which includes 12 Intensive Care Unit beds.

Adult Acute Mental Health Unit -Te Whetu Tawera